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WASO's Principal 3rd Horn Robert Gladstones and Associate Principal Oboe Liz Chee.
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WASO embraces new venues and new programs in its 2025 season

Despite the temporary closure of Perth Concert Hall, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra shows no sign of slowing down in…

An Aboriginal man in a silver costume has a moon like headdress and carries a lit sphere on a pole. Emu in the Sun, Blak in the Room.
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Theatre review: Blak in the Room, Southbank Theatre

Three short plays offer 'the gift of hearing our stories' from First Nations playwrights and creatives.

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This week's arts news and trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.

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Sensitivity readers: why do we need them?

Why are sensitivity readers used by authors and publishing companies?

Sarah J Maas continues to dominate BookTok and the publishing industry at large.
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BookTok's 10 best reads of 2024

Explore BookTok's explosive 2024 picks, from romantasy to serial killer escapades. The platform continues to shape the international publishing industry.

Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice will be staged in Melbourne in 2025. Pictured are the Opera Australia Chorus and Circa in Opera Australia's 2024 production of Orpheus & Eurydice.
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ArtsHub’s 2025 season guide to the performing arts

Our rolling guide to the season announcements you may have missed.

SAM Artistic Director Danny Lacy and Dr. Michael Elliott. Two white man standing in a narrow corridor filled with picture frames.
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Michael Elliott bequeaths 'deeply personal' ceramics collection to Shepparton Art Museum

From a ceramics collection that dates back to his teenage years, Michael Elliott has gifted 198 artworks to the Shepparton…

Hopes of AI theft being addressed thanks to recommendations from the latest report. Image: Winston Duke as part of the Visualising AI project by Google Deepmind, Unsplash. A rectangular platform is held by two illuminated columns against a black space.
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Beacon of hope as Senate releases final report to stop AI theft and remunerate creatives

Recommendations from the Select Committee on Adopting AI seek to address 'unprecedented theft' by Meta, Google and Amazon.

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Indigenous Knowledge – connected by song

In this extract from 'Indigenous Knowledge – Australian Perspectives', the authors explore the importance and power of music and its…

A "well-executed" act of voter fraud was detected for the 2024 Music Victoria Awards. A sun-filled lecture space with a screen displaying "MUSIC VICTORIA".
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Voter fraud wreaks havoc at recent music awards

An incident of voter fraud altered five out of six publicly voted winners of the 2024 Music Victoria Awards.

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