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The Brisbane Lions have cemented themselves as the AFL’s dominant force of the modern era, backing up last year’s demolition of Sydney with a commanding 47-point grand final win over the Geelong Cats. Unlike 2024’s one-sided contest, the start of this game …

Note: Siena Fagan is an objectively un-trendy chick I do not care if your Labubu is actually a Lafufu. I do not want to try a Dubai Chocolate Iced Latte. And I do not want to see your Sonny Angel collection. Trend …

The Chinese Australian Forum (CAF) celebrated 40 years with a sold-out dinner at Westfield Chatswood Sydney on September 5, joined by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, MPs and community leaders. Federal MPs in the room included Andrew Charlton (Parramatta), Sally Sitou (Reid), Ash …

Sam Shepard’s scorching look at sibling rivalry, masculinity and aspects of the American Dream is darkly comedic. Austin (Darcy Kent) has agreed to housesit his mother’s place in a remote part of California while she takes a holiday because it will provide …

Wildly funny and completely outré, Garry Starr’s Classic Penguins had the audience in fits of laughter all the way through his 70-minute foray into the world of books. Starr’s ‘mission’ is to save literature by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. …

Playwright Melanie Tait has penned a paeon to A Country Practice with this supremely entertaining take on what happens when a writing team decides it has to up the ratings of an already exceedingly popular soap by ‘killing’ off a beloved young …

In this immersive theatre event, audiences – let’s call them ‘inductees’ – are invited to ‘seize the night’ (carpe noctem, as opposed to carpe diem) and indulge in the hedonistic pleasures of ‘the society’, itself heralded as ‘neat, discreet and elite’. To …

  ‘Bomb away!’ said Major Thomas Ferebee aboard his B-29 aircraft on 6 August 1945, as the atomic bomb dropped into Hiroshima and destroyed the city and killed up to 140,000 people. Hisashi Inoue’s The Face of Jizo opens three years after …

What protesters and the organisers of the Harbour Bridge Protest hoped the world would see seems to have taken root. A Taiwanese pro-Palestinian activist with a background in sociology (who asked not to be named) said she was “amazed” when she saw …

On August 24, Australia will witness its largest nationwide pro-Palestinian rally since the August 3 protest on the Sydney Habour Bridge demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The demand is now more intense in the wake of the recent UN-backed IPC famine review …