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Having a self-employed partner can significantly reduce your life satisfaction. A couple hold hands, but stare in opposite directions, as if each needs something different to the other.
Career Advice

Married to the job? How having a self-employed partner might be hurting your happiness

The pressures of self-employment can have a significant impact on one's partner, writes Hassan Kalantari Daronkola.

A muscular person, naked from the waist up and facing away from the camera, dances on a reflective floor. He wears a long white dress which swirls out around him and contrasts dramatically with the black background and dark, polished floor. The image illustrates On the Move, a weekly column detailing Australian arts sector appointments and resignations.
News

On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Our weekly round-up of Australian arts sector comings and goings.

A blue and black illustration of a lightbulb with symbols bursting out of it.
Career Advice

Roadmap to Success – Learning Module 1, Finding Your Success

The final video in this first module, offering practical advice for creative businesses and produced by The Big Idea in…

Wildlife Illustrator Peter Schouten. A black and white photo of an elderly man wearing slim glasses and a shirt on a digital gold background with the text 'so you want my arts job?'
Q&A

So you want my arts job: Wildlife Illustrator

Peter Schouten has been a freelance wildlife illustrator for five decades, with the depiction of prehistoric animals being his speciality.

The top part of a golden nib. Writers looking for side hustles, like copywriting and manuscript assessment.
Career Advice

5 side hustles for writers

Are you a writer who needs to make some extra income on the side? Here are some ideas that may…

A hand is painting the word 'Poetry' in back on the wall of bright, colourful graffiti.
Opinions & Analysis

Accidental poetry should be all around us

Imagine stumbling into poems in unexpected places as you go about your day.

Two panels. On the left is a man with white hair and sunglasses and a black shirt standing in front of a landscape. In the right is a cover of a book with 'Beam of Light' and 'John Kinsella' in white font against an image of a heron standing in a multicolour oil slick.
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Book review: Beam of Light, John Kinsella

John Kinsella creates characters who are intensely, recognisably human in his collection of short stories.

Two panels. On the left is a photo of author Stephen Downes, a man with salt and pepper hair, a white shirt, and dark jumper. On the right is the cover of this book, with 'Murals' in black font against a background of cherubs painted on the walls and ceilings.
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Book review: Mural, Stephen Downes

A charming psychopath beguiles with his anecdotes.

Dancer/choreographer Luke Murphy, looking sweaty and slightly dishevelled, holds an old-fashioned alarm clock up to one ear, in a scene from the dance-theatre production Volcano. He wears a dark suit jacket over a grey coat, and stands in front of a background of dingy wallpaper to which sheets of blank paper are pinned.
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Festival review: Volcano, Brisbane Powerhouse

On a glassed-in stage, two men reenact their memories in an endless loop – but what if those memories aren’t…

Jo Davies is a grey-haired, fair-skinned, middle-aged woman wearing a grey and black scarf, a grey cardigan and a black shirt. Jo Davies has left Opera Australia under dramatic circumstances as of today.
News

Opera Australia Artistic Director quits over ‘differences of opinion’

Jo Davies has abruptly left Australia’s national opera company less than a year after commencing her role.

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