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At this year’s Rising festival, I was most excited by the new and unexpected audiences

Rising situates itself as a festival of new art, performance and music that takes place in the heart of Naarm/Melbourne just as the weather turns cold and the days get darker and shorter.

The Conversation · Jun 28, 2024

Eliza Batman, the Irish convict reinvented as 'Melbourne's founding mother', was both colonised and coloniser on two violent frontiers

On June 8 1835, 188 years ago today, pastoralist John Batman crossed the Bass Strait and arrived on the shores of Naarm (now Melbourne city), on Kulin lands. His Irish-born convict wife, Eliza Batman, and their seven daughters arrived at Port Phillip the following year.

The Conversation · Jun 7, 2023

Birrarangga Film Festival to showcase Indigenous films from around the world in Naarm

A coming-of-age story about unconventional friendships and first crushes, and a story inspired by true events about a police officer who must choose between duty to his badge or his people. These are just some of the films due to screen at the Birrarangga Film Festival, which will showcase Indigenous…

ABC News · Mar 18, 2023