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After homosexuality was decriminalised in the mid '80s, campaigning led by Reverend Fred Nile called for Sydney’s annual Mardi Gras (@sydneymardigras) to be axed. Parade goers of 1989 hit back with a memorably sassy float. #SydneyMardiGras
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.@perthfest's disability arts initiative is having a powerful Australia-wide effect: ab.co/2XwxR6A
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.@CathcartMichael spoke to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child director John Tiffany about his collaboration with @jk_rowling and the terrifying power in deciding the fate of these beloved characters. #CursedChildAUS
Harry Potter Comes to the Theatre | The Stage Show
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child's director reflects on his collaboration with J. K. Rowling and the terrifying power of deciding the fate of these beloved characters.
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Civil War, family secrets, and the Sri Lankan-Australian experience are explored in the bold new play Counting and Cracking. #TheMixABC
Counting and Cracking | The Mix
Civil War, family secrets, and the Sri Lankan-Australian experience are explored in the bold new play Counting and Cracking. #TheMixABC
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The National Gallery of Victoria's new exhibition proves that the fashion and art worlds are one in the same.
The extensive couture collection is now on display - @georgie_tunny got a sneak peek!
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The National Gallery of Victoria's new exhibition proves that the fashion and art worlds are one in the same. An extensive couture collection is now on display, @georgie_tunny got a sneak peek!
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Pussy Riot to join forces with Yothu Yindi at @ADLfringe festival: ab.co/2SCMstO
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Today on The Bookshelf, @HistoryGirlKate & @cassiemccullagh are joined by writers @slamup & Elias Grieg to discuss:
➡️ @M_Z_Harrison's All Among the Barley
➡️ @NK_Adjei's Friday Black
➡️ @MongeEmiliano's Among the Lost
👂📻12pm or ab.co/2T6lH66 @RadioNational @ABCArts
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Talking TV: Has #TheHeights reinvented the soapie?
@DrLaurenCH says ABC's new offering follows in the tradition of Home and Away and Neighbours, but has a further aim to revolutionise the genre.
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#TheScreenShow
@ArtsonRN
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Music festival organisers say they are still "bewildered" by the New South Wales Government's new licensing scheme, which comes into effect tomorrow: ab.co/2tJRLxa
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This is tomorrow!
12:30pm at The Palais, Riverbank of Elder Park
@adelaidefest
People of Adelaide! The Stage Show w/@CathcartMichael will be live on stage @adelaidefest this Friday and you're invited to be part of the audience. Feat @RHealy1, Meryl Tankard + more.
That’s this Friday 1 March at 12:30pm at The Palais, Riverbank of Elder Park.
See you there!
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Perth-based amateur photographer Jingyi Zhang snapped a picture of a 'dragon head' in the aurora borealis over Iceland ab.co/2Sw566e (via @ABCArts)
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Today on The Screen Show with @jdrrr:
➡️ @DrLaurenCH on @ABCTV's The Heights with Warren Clarke, @theqza & @SueTinThirroul
➡️ Gabrielle Brady's Island of the Hungry Ghosts
➡️ @getkrackinshow's @katemclennan1 & @tigervsshark's Top Shelf
👂📻10am @RadioNational @ABCArts
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In a scathing letter, Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson reveals she quit the forthcoming animated film Luck because of a "pattern of misconduct" by embattled former Pixar executive John Lasseter: ab.co/2Tp93OY
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Gabrielle Brady discusses her lyrical, angry hybrid film about Oz asylum policy ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS tomoz on the show. Another v strong debut from outside the local mainstream funding bodies (some NT screen $ aside). Yay for cinema literate Australian directors making it!
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Wayne Budge's friendship with some of Australian music's most iconic figures has led to a photographic time capsule: ab.co/2GKvwjz
Tasmanian bushfires and aftermath captured in 'striking, horrible' photographs:
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Janet Laurence is an installation artist whose work explores the intersection of art and science. In this clip from the ABC archives, we revisit her 2000 exhibition ‘Transpiration’, which featured taxidermic animals, specimens and other bewitching paraphernalia. #RewindABC
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Good morning!
Prepare for inevitable workplace small talk about #Oscars2019
by listening to this debrief feat. @jdrrr @DrLaurenCH @mrbenjaminlaw & moi
@ArtsonRN @RadioNational @ABCArts abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
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A truck driver with a passion for drone photography is showcasing some of Australia's most remote and unique landscapes from the sky: ab.co/2tAAIh1
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For the Autio Parke family in Adelaide, backyard cricket is more than a sport - it's an art.
Watch #TheArtOfTheGame this Sunday night on @ABCTV!
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