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Human rights experts warn that involving those most affected in policy-making is the only way to tackle global hunger, questioning the benefits of “investor-driven” public-private partnerships (PPPs) such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa …

Whenever I hear the saxophone used in classical orchestral music – after years of digging the instrument in jazz and rock with all its attendant growls, snarls, bleeds and honks – it sounds like a completely different instrument to its earthier-music sibling. Its …

If you enjoy an authentic period play and feel like a trip back to the 1950s head down to the Sydney Theatre to catch Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced before October 27 or see it at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre from October 30. The …

Leaving your comfort zone is not easy but Charlotte Havez, a 21-year-old French girl, did exactly that last summer when she volunteered in two Indian schools. She decided to be part of the Tilak Bal Gurukul program that helps the poorest and …

US President Barack Obama has warned that support of the Egyptian government will depend on its adoption of US and democratic values. In last Tuesday’s address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Obama officially cancelled military exercises with Egypt that had …

It is 11am and my brother, Cornelius, walks straight to the fridge, grabs a microwave meal and eats it straight from the plastic container. On his way to bed, he unhooks his stethoscope from his neck and flings off his Adidas trainers. …

The Renaissance Players are back on home turf and will play their next concert series in the Great Hall, Sydney University, on Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 6. The 35th Runnymede Pop Festival is a unique concert of serious, devout, comic, …

It was the first time I met John Lanzafame, pizza god to the world, celebrity chef and winner of many titles in pizza and pasta, globally. He has been an ambassador in Australia when it comes to pizza and southern Italian food …

Drawing has often been seen as the poor cousin of painting. Smaller, more spindly, less colourful – drawing and graphic arts such as printmaking, by their nature, can lack painting’s drama and spectacle. But graphic art has its own power and charm. …

This is a film about the things that unite us.  It reminds us that under our skins, cultures and the ways we choose to adorn ourselves, we’re not so very different.  It’s fly on the wall cinema, a masterpiece of open and …