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Aisha Dee on how the Australian screen industry is changing and why she took on family violence drama Safe Home

After struggling to find work in Australia, the actor made her name on beloved American TV series The Bold Type. Now, she’s found her voice and returned home.

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The best new books released in May, as selected by avid readers and critics

A beautiful grifter, a defiant prodigy and a political prisoner star in this month’s best books, which our critics describe variously as "utterly engaging", "beguiling" and "profound".

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New Ivan Sen film Limbo expands Mystery Road's focus on missing and murdered Indigenous women

The creator of Mystery Road returns with an outback noir about a detective on the trail of a cold case — a film he says is a "Trojan horse" for an urgent issue: the alarmingly high rate at which Indigenous women are murdered.

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Jaguar Jonze takes to Sydney Opera House stage to reclaim power after trauma in a boundary-pushing new show for Vivid LIVE

The Taiwanese Australian singer is using rope bondage to explore her trauma — and reclaim power — in a new performance.

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Ruva Ngwenya’s singing career started with Tina Turner, and now she’s playing the icon in a new musical opening in Sydney

Ruva Ngwenya has been performing in musicals for 10 years but Tina – the Tina Turner Musical will be the first time she’s playing a lead role, and it’s one that has been 15 years in the making.

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The Art of Banksy: Without Limits brings work of iconic street artist to Australia — without his endorsement

Subversive street artist Banksy has not endorsed an exhibition of his work that landed in Australia this week — and organisers are unapologetic.

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Judith Lucy draws upon parents' dysfunctional relationship to bring to life Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at Melbourne Theatre Company

Having quit stand-up last year, the comedian is making her theatre debut — playing a character she understands on a 'gut level', because she reminds her of her mother.

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The best new books released in April, as selected by avid readers and critics

Our favourite new reads include a playful anti-thriller, the latest from a Booker winner, and a book that questions if we can still enjoy the art of bad people.

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Stella Prize 2023: Sarah Holland-Batt wins $60,000 for her poetry collection, The Jaguar

Sarah Holland-Batt has won the Stella Prize, for her "lyrical and wise" collection The Jaguar — the second year a poet has won this major award for women and non-binary writers.

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Bestselling author Pip Williams returns with The Bookbinder of Jericho, a companion novel to her hit The Dictionary of Lost Words

In The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams tells the stories of working-class women in World War I that are too often missing from the official historical archive.

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The 2023 Stella Prize shortlist is one of its most diverse. Why has it changed so much over the decade?

Earlier this month, a key commentator said the issue of women writers "not being taken seriously in this country" was "solved", and credited the Stella Prize. But Stella’s co-CEO disagrees.

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The best new books released in March, as selected by avid readers and critics

Short stories by Margaret Atwood, a thriller from a Booker Prize winner, and an interrogation of our cultural obsession with true crime are among our favourite new books.

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How Celeste Barber went from Instagram star to the lead in new Netflix comedy Wellmania

The actor, comedian and writer now has more followers than Gwyneth Paltrow as well as her first leading TV role in new Australian comedy Wellmania.

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Where to watch the Oscar-winning films and their fellow nominees

The Academy has decided on the best films of 2022. Here's where you can watch them.

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These Sydney WorldPride artists are some of Australia's most innovative and boundary-pushing creatives

ABC Arts has dug into the Sydney WorldPride program to introduce you to some of Australia’s most radical and thought-provoking creatives.

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Perth Festival's superstar headliner Björk breaks box office records, but can't eclipse the Noongar excellence of Djoondal

The superstar headliner has already paid off for Perth Festival, but opening weekend platformed Noongar excellence, with a different kind of futuristic, audiovisual spectacle.

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Sydney WorldPride headliner Kae Tempest on how coming out as non-binary transformed their life and art, and their Australian tour

It took many years and a health crisis for Kae Tempest to realise they’d been trying to escape themselves; ahead of Sydney WorldPride, they explain how coming out as non-binary was not only transformative but essential.

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Maeve Marsden's Blessed Union, opening at Belvoir for Sydney WorldPride, might be Australia's first lesbian divorce play

Maeve Marsden grew up the child of lesbian mothers — who subsequently divorced; this experience, and the same-sex marriage postal survey of 2017, inform her comedy Blessed Union.

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Your holiday streaming guide: Where to watch the most talked-about films of the year

From box office hits to award contenders and hyped releases that launched a thousand hot takes, here's where to stream the most talked-about films of the year.

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Jo Davies set to become Opera Australia’s first female artistic director

British director Jo Davies has bold plans for the nation’s biggest performing arts company, which has been mired in gender inequity issues and bullying allegations in recent years.

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Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2022 awarded to Graeme Drendel for portrait of fellow artist Lewis Miller

This year's Moran Prize received more than 700 entries and left the judges divided on the top 30 finalists.

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Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott's new novel Limberlost captures his climate anxiety and passion for the natural world

Climate anxiety is at the heart of Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott's fiction, with his latest novel, Limberlost, garnering rave reviews and awards buzz.

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The Jungle and the Sea, follow-up to Counting and Cracking, uses theatre as a safe space to discuss Sri Lankan civil war

For years, Anandavalli stayed silent about her country's civil war but then her playwright son, S. Shakthidharan, started writing about it anyway. Now, she stars in his latest play.

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Stephanie Lake’s journey from dancer to leading Australian choreographer climaxes with Colossus, Manifesto and Sydney Dance Company’s The Universe Is Here

She’s one of Australia’s most exciting choreographers, rocketing to success here and abroad over the last four years; but Stephanie Lake’s pathway to the mainstage was unconventional and convoluted.

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The best new books released in August as selected by avid readers and critics

Our critics' picks for August include a sci-fi debut set in futuristic Melbourne, a 50s queer love story, and the latest from the author of Booker nominee Room.

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