Immigration debate and visa uncertainty are putting students off and increasing pressure on budgets

Author Carmel Bird pays tribute to her friend, the pioneering writer, editor and publisher who died earlier this month.

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Far North Queensland's Eastern Kuku Yalanji people celebrate an historic native title determination recognising their rights over more than 200,000 hectares of Cape York.

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Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display

Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% In the 70 years after the British invaded.

Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than previously estimated, but was devastated following the arrival of Europeans, new research reveals.

The Beat Megaclub went up for auction last November and recently sold for $13 million.

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The conditions set by TEQSA illustrate how far the ANU council had drifted from normal expectations of probity, accountability and transparency.

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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The census is compulsory and you can be fined if you refuse to complete it. But the Australian Bureau of Statistics will give you a friendly reminder before taking legal action.

The census gives you the option to preserve your records, to be released after 99 years. We should all consent.

Sydney Opera House Purcell’s play-turned-book-turned-film is now also an opera, a form that allows for a more expansive story and a deeper sense of First Nations culture Leah Purcell’s operatic retelling of Henry Lawson’s classic Australian bush tale opens with an invitation: a whispered incantation and singing in language, as Wiradjuri soprano Shauntai Abdul-Rahman calls us to listen, look, learn. At the centre of the stage an older woman (Jeanette Fabila) wearing ceremonial headdress sits cross legged. Clap sticks sound as dancers arrive on stage, coalescing in something like a corroboree. In the audience, we sense that we’re participants in something ceremonial and salutary. It immediately signals the significance of this latest iteration of Purcell’s story, composed by George Palmer (Cloudstreet) for Opera Australia and Queensland Performing Arts Centre (where it premiered in May). Starting with her acclaimed 2016 stage play, and in subsequent novel and film versions, Purcell – a Goa Gunggari Wakka Wakka Murri woman from Queensland – has used Lawson’s short story about a “sun-browned bushwoman”, who spends a tense night guarding her four children against a snake, as a springboard for a postcolonial feminist western that tells ugly truths about colonial Australia’s treatment of women and first peoples. Continue reading...

Canberra's bus shelters were described as "concrete monstrosities" when installed in 1975 but have since been noted for their brutalist architectural style and functionality.

Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed