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Cate Blanchett has won Best Actress at Britain's BAFTA awards for her role in Blue Jasmine.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, awards-and-prizes, united-kingdom, australia
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Asian films were big winners at the Berlin International Film Festival, led by Chinese thriller 'Black Coal, Thin Ice', which took the top Golden Bear prize.
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A Canberra punk musician has pleaded not guilty to the murder of popular local music fan Nicholas Sofer-Schreiber.
Watson man Christopher David Navin, 27, was arrested and charged on Friday after a seven-week murder investigation led police to a property in Grafton, in northern New South Wales.
Sofer-Schreiber, 27, was found dead in his Lyneham townhouse on December 28 after not being heard from since Boxing Day.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, music, canberra-2600, lyneham-2602, watson-2602, grafton-2460
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A Melbourne music studio has handed over its walls to artists and now the city's busiest streets has its very own version of the Skywhale.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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Young Queensland singer Samuel Johnson has been selected to train at the Royal Opera House in London.
Topics: opera-and-musical-theatre, people, brisbane-4000, qld
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Some talented students and staff from the University of South Australia have given an Adelaide street a vibrant transformation.
Topics: street-art, arts-and-entertainment, university-and-further-education, education, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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An an art fraud expert has criticised the National Gallery of Australia as it begins legal action against an art dealer accused of selling stolen works.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, courts-and-trials, art-history, canberra-2600, act, united-states, india
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A Hazara artist has made the journey from a home in exile in Pakistan to one of Australia's top galleries.
Topics: visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, pakistan, afghanistan
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Hollywood actress and former child star Shirley Temple has died aged 85.
The American actress started her screen career at the age of three in 1932 and became known for films such as Bright Eyes, The Little Colonel, Poor Little Rich Girl and Heidi.
She lifted America's spirits as a bright-eyed, dimpled child movie star during the Great Depression before becoming involved in politics later in life and being posted overseas as a US diplomat.
She retired completely from the film industry by the age of 22 but went on to host Shirley Temple's Storybook and The Shirley Temple Show from 1958 to 1961.
In a statement, Temple's family said the actress died of natural causes and "peacefully passed away" on Monday at her home in California "surrounded by her family and caregivers".
She received a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and is on the list of the American Film Institute's greatest female screen legends.
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Sydney's Mitchell Library Reading Room should be kept as a place of books and readers and intellectual exchange, not transformed into a social hub.
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Copenhagen Zoo has defended its decision to kill a young, healthy giraffe on the grounds of genetic breeding regulations.
Topics: animals-and-nature, animals, zoos, zoology, animal-science, denmark
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A new TV drama series set in Tasmania's south is set to create 100 new jobs for the state.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, kettering-7155
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Hollywood director Woody Allen has again denied molesting his daughter in a letter to the New Your Times.
Topics: director, film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice
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Hollywood stars including Australian actress Cate Blanchett have attended a private funeral service for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in New York.
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The promoter of the Big Day Out has confirmed the festival will not be returning to Perth, blaming the decision on financial issues.
Topics: music, carnivals-and-festivals, events, arts-and-entertainment, perth-6000, wa, australia
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The Perth International Arts Festival starts today featuring more than 1,000 artists from around the world.
The event is in its 62nd year, making it the longest running arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere.
Artistic Director Jonathan Holloway said more than 500,000 people are expected to attend festival events over the next three weeks.
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Coronation Street actor William Roache has been cleared of rape and indecent assault charges in Britain.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, television, united-kingdom
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The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder will run positive tourism advertising during re-runs of the television show Kalgoorlie Cops.
Topics: television, police, rural-tourism, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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The musical brains behind a supposedly deaf composer dubbed "Japan's Beethoven" has claimed the mock maestro was a scheming manipulator who could hear normally but couldn't even write sheet music.
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Long-time Bruce Springsteen fan Vel Holland has achieved a 32-year dream to dance with her idol.
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Diao Yinan (R) director of 'Bai Ri Yan Huo' (Black Coal, Thin Ice) poses with his Golden Bear for Best Film next to actor Liao Fan (L) who poses with his Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 64th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin February 15, 2014.
Dr Karl exposes the truth about photographs, memory, and selfies
Woodley and Provan kid around ahead of International Comedy Festival
Fremantle arts organisation closing its doors
One Plus One: Jackie Collins
US photographer documenting 'faith driven clothing'
Meerkats are painting works of art at Canberra's zoo