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The current major exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is Sydney Moderns. It has the subtitle Art for a New World, and the pictures shown – over 180 works by many of Australia’s most significant artists of the 1920s …

With the recent change in leadership, there is speculation that Australia’s asylum seeker policy could become even tougher. This raises serious questions about Australia’s commitment to the international protection of refugees writes Daniela Carlucci. For those who’ve come across the seas, we’ve …

At 1am, Katherine Biggs awakes, her breath forming steam in the unheated animal shed that is her home. With no hot water, she skips a shower and gets ready to make the three-hour drive to Brisbane to sell vegetables at a farmer’s …

This year’s Vivid festival again brought Sydney alive with art. We had Kraftwerk and the parti-coloured Opera House; we had Wagner-a-la-multimedia and Johnny Cupcakes. But one of the most striking and jaw-dropping works presented under the Vivid umbrella was ‘test pattern ’, …

If you’re wondering where wandering songstress Miriam Waks has been for the past year and a half, the answer is anywhere but here. Deeply frustrated and consumed with an overwhelming desire to “feel alive”, she has been off meditating in India, tangoing …

  The beautiful rural Hunter Valley region has become a playground where Australia’s deadly Carbon Games are played all year round, local Sue Abbot reports The fog edges to the very seams of dawn and dutifully the morning light retreats to the sidelines to …

Baobab trees stand in abundance with lush yellow grass swaying at their trunks. Grey Loerie birds float between trees in the clear blue air while insects faintly hum from the earth. The bushveld: home to the Big Five, a place of enchantment and …

You could be forgiven for thinking you were in an Amphitheatre on a cliff somewhere in the Mediterranean, not on Sydney Harbour watching a rare performance of the Jean Racine classic Phedre. The elegant but sharp Ted Hughes translation of the Racine …

“CALIPO, CALIIIIIIPO, Coca Coooooola,” shouts the Brazilian backpacker, carrying a small ice box filled with chilled delights. “CAALLLIIIIPO!!” she screams. Lying face down on your towel and doing your best to avoid her eye contact, you become distracted by another sound. A …

“Retailers are our friends, and, of course, the factory workers are our partners,” says Riaz Bin Mahmud, the vice-president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). If that’s the case, then most international retailers—who Mahmud believes are accountable for the …