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Theatre review: Bluey’s Big Play, QPAC
Pop culture phenomena Bluey and Bingo become puppets in this well-crafted experience for under eights.
Queensland Music Festival expanding, recommiting to regional engagement
With new funding and programming, the festival dramatically reinvented itself during COVID.
Book Review: Life Skills for a Broken World by Dr Ahona Guha
A practical guide to good psychological help to bring in the new year.
What our opera companies are offering in 2024
New leadership means new energy for major companies in an exciting year.
Christmas concerts are keeping Australian artists employed
For the performing artists who get busier than ever at this time of year, the main focus of their work…
Book review: Bright Shining, Julia Baird
A companion piece to her earlier book, 'Phosphorescence', 'Bright Shining' explores the quality of grace.
Romance as BookTok feminism? Australian authors disrupting the form
Competing with BookTok's global success and the traditional misogynistic response towards romance books, Australian authors are looking to innovate.
Wesley Enoch criticises 'an age of inarticulate leadership'
Reflecting on the state of the arts, Queensland and First Nations theatre-making at the end of 2023, Wesley Enoch has…
New attraction, Bluey's World, to launch exclusively in Brisbane
The brand new purpose-built immersive attraction will open in August 2024.
Book Review: Ordinary Gods and Monsters, by Chris Womersley
A suburban crime thriller with darkly humorous undertones.