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‘Wirnan’. Photo: Glenn Iseger-Pilkington 2018.
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Cultural collaboration between remote Kimberley art centres

Through collaboration and shared resources, remote Kimberley art centres strengthen cultural practice and promote a unique identity.

Australian Circus Summit. Image is of a dark stage with some spot lighting and a band along the back wall. Centre stage is a man standing with four others running around him and one other person flat out and held aloft.
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The Moving State of Circus: opening keynote from the Australian Circus Summit

The keynote speech by Darcy Grant, Artistic Director of Gravity and Other Myths, presented last week at NICA’s Australian Circus…

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Arts organisations say they want to be ‘cultural leaders’ – but are they living up to their goals?

Should our leading arts companies take a stand more often?

Referendum. Image shows woman in low cut black sparkly dress, with headdress and sash in colours of the Aboriginal flag.
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On the referendum and intersectionality...

Now that Australia has voted, what's next? And how did the Voice to Parliament referendum differ from the postal vote…

Trans. Woman with green top and long brown hair sits in armchair looking at camera with hand under chin. Behind her are a pot plant and a lamp.
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Activists will tell you that trans roles should go to trans actors – I disagree

When a certain children's author is played by a trans performer and a trans character is played by a cis…

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Mental health is a human right: we're talking about a revolution

World Mental Health Day is a chance to question the systems that undermine human happiness and creativity.

Reading. outdoor sculpture is a part of a building broken with the word library on it.
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Is reading in crisis?

Outtakes from the VOLUME Symposium find that it’s time for urgent action, as national reading rates decline.

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How ‘mental health’ has been reimagined in the workplace

Good mental health in the arts won’t happen until we see people with lived experienced enabled and included as leaders…

Fatness. A shirtless man with pink hair has one hand on his belly.
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Slim pickings: the state of fatness on Australian stages

A new play in the Melbourne Fringe Festival aims to make the world a little bit fatter and little bit…

Photo of a male ballet dancer holding up a female ballet dancer against a dark grey background.
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Boys can do ballet too

Ballet dancer and educational leader Gregor Thieler discusses breaking gender stereotypes in classical dance.

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