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| UpdatedTributes flow for one of Australia's most acclaimed portrait painters, Judy Cassab, who has died at the age of 95.
Topics: death, community-and-society, arts-and-entertainment, painting, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedPremier Annastacia Palaszczuk rejects a compromise on nightclub lockout laws proposed by independent MP Billy Gordon.
Topics: state-parliament, laws, popular-culture, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedSome bands look and sound lame once they start rotating through members. But for others, it's less about the personalities and more about the songs themselves.
Topics: rock
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| UpdatedPop star Taylor Swift is being sued for $59 million by an R&B artist, who says she copied his lyrics for her hit song Shake It Off and there is "no way" she came up with them independently.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, arts-and-entertainment, copyright, united-states
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| UpdatedTens of thousands of people flock to Flemington Racecourse to soak up the sun, champagne and atmosphere of the Melbourne Cup.
Topics: horse-racing, fashion, states-and-territories, arts-and-entertainment, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedCult TV franchise Star Trek will boldly return to the small screen with a brand new series in 2017, CBS says, delighting millions of fans around the world.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, television, human-interest, united-states
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| UpdatedA catalogue documenting the early sale of Phar Lap - complete with delivery instructions jotted down in pencil - is bought at auction by the National Museum of Australia for more than $46,000.
Topics: horse-racing, history, community-and-society, library-museum-and-gallery, canberra-2600, act, australia, vic
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| UpdatedMore than 100,000 racegoers are expected to descend on Flemington for the 155th Melbourne Cup, but despite the dry weather forecast there are concerns a "soft and sticky" section of the track could cause trouble for jockeys and their mounts.
Topics: community-and-society, horse-racing, sport, fashion, melbourne-3000
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Lively festivities take place across the world in celebration of the Mexican Dia de los Muertos festival — or the Day of the Dead.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, mexico
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School students share their stories to document the changing face of children in western Sydney as part this year's Sydney Writers' Festival program.
Topics: community-and-society, youth, education, books-literature, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedArchaeologists and Aboriginal elders are hoping the most comprehensive study of rock art done in the Kimberley region will confirm the images are among the oldest made by humans anywhere in the world.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, science-and-technology, archaeology, art-history, wa, broome-6725
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| UpdatedA US photographer turns her love of felines into a photographic project, capturing cats in the act of shaking water off their bodies.
Topics: animal-welfare, human-interest, photography, fine-art-photography
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| UpdatedThe Perth International Arts Festival's contemporary live music venue will have a new but temporary home at Elizabeth Quay from next year.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, arts-and-entertainment, perth-6000
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| UpdatedPeter Garrett, on a book tour in the Northern Territory, says he has no regrets despite not achieving some of the outcomes desperately wanted by communities there.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-music, rock, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAmber Heard, the actress wife of Johnny Depp facing charges under Australia's Quarantine Act for allegedly bringing her dogs Pistol and Boo into the country illegally, has her case adjourned.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, actor, film-movies, human-interest, southport-4215
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Weaker male quacking frogs have more luck in group sex situations, a study by the University of Western Australia finds.
Topics: animals, animal-behaviour, animals-and-nature, albany-6330
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| UpdatedArchitects often make their names with house designs for the elite, but an event in Chicago has shown how their creativity can be used to break down prejudices, enhance sustainability and transform communities.
Topics: architecture, architectural
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| UpdatedFred Thompson, the folksy former US senator from Tennessee who appeared in Law and Order and The Hunt for Red October, dies from lymphoma aged 73.
Topics: world-politics, community-and-society, actor, united-states
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Families and friends being to gather to remember loved ones who have passed as part of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead.
Topics: community-and-society, popular-culture, religion-and-beliefs, mexico
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| UpdatedAlt-metal mainstays Deftones, the reunited Disturbed, electro crew The Prodigy, and rap icons Public Enemy are set to headline Soundwave 2016, the music festival has announced.
You can also get your horns up to Soulfly, punk pin-ups NOFX, go wild with Frenzal Rhomb, and tear it up with hardcore legends Refused when the festival roars across the East Coast this January.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, australia