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How does poetry create, sustain, and transform knowledge?

Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’

Abstract. Australia in the 21st century is a far cry from the country that once struggled with the “tyranny of distance” and a pervasive sense of cultural

Just five months after the private school unveiled its new student centre modelled on a faux baronial castle, parents are asking questions about the revamped library’s operations.

It began as an innocuous inquiry on Facebook. Nelson Felix, a resident of New York State, posted in the group ‘What’s My Typewriter Worth?’ about a curious find he made while clearing out the basement...

Chinese national, 27, reportedly returned to Japan’s highest mountain days after first rescue to retrieve his phone

Those who jeered or condemned the Welcome to Country at Anzac Day ceremonies misunderstand its significance and intention. It does nothing to divide us.

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Exclusive: Backlash comes as 3,000 artists, curators, writers and academics sign petition calling for reinstatement

If conservative media is going to dictate cultural policy, Australian culture will face a reckoning.

Contentious figures have always featured in Australian art – and this fact is what makes Khaled Sabsabi’s removal from the Venice Biennale so confronting.

Despite a seven-year planning process and successfully securing the funding, the Czech Republic’s dam plans went nowhere. Until the animal workers arrived.

Michael Leunig’s journey from anti-war and anti-corporate provocateur to a critic of ‘wokeism’ and cancel culture is familiar and predictable. We’ve seen other prominent baby-boomer artists, thinke…

On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building

Footage of a storm in Sydney on Sunday captured vehicles ploughing through flooded streets and water lapping at the entrance of shops.

Exclusive: Environment minister agreed detail with Greens but the PM intervened after lobbying from WA premier and miners

“I’ve always had a dispute with narration, since it traps the reader in immersion, like a drowning dragonfly. (Are writers part of the entertainment industry? Are books pastimes?)”

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