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| UpdatedGay, lesbian and gender diverse teenagers celebrated the end of high school at the inaugural LGBT-Plus Fancy Formal in northern New South Wales.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, youth, events, community-and-society, sexuality, education, byron-bay-2481, ocean-shores-2483, mullumbimby-2482, billinudgel-2483
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| UpdatedBrendan Dassey, whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series Making a Murderer, could be celebrating Thanksgiving at home with his family in Wisconsin after a judge orders him released from prison.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, documentary, united-states
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For famed street artist Alice Pasquini, flying to Australia to create a 10-metre-high public painting is not just work, it is a chance to celebrate the Italian migration story that shaped this country.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, immigration, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedArchitects and urban planners might think they know it all, but burglars can teach us a lot about our own cities, says writer Geoff Manaugh.
Topics: design, architecture, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, united-states
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Brisbane author Nick Earls says his multi-platform experiment, publishing five novellas in five months, is proving to be a risk worth taking.
Topics: novel, print-media, digital-multimedia, people, human-interest, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedRising music star MANE's songs contain expressions of emotional maturity of someone well beyond her years.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, music-awards, human-interest, people, adelaide-5000, port-pirie-5540, sa, australia
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| UpdatedA new production by comedian Greg Fleet sets Shakespeare's Macbeth in the world of Western Australian politics.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA concert by British pop legend Sting marks the reopening of Paris' Bataclan concert hall, one year after terrorists turned it into a bloodbath and killed 90 revellers with automatic weapons and explosive belts.
Topics: terrorism, music, human-interest, community-and-society, death, france
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| UpdatedThousands flock to Brisbane's Supanova pop culture convention, many of them in costumes they have spent the past months or even years working on, to meet and mingle with like-minded people.
Topics: people, human-interest, popular-culture, arts-and-entertainment, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedLate actor Heath Ledger's family have contributed treasured childhood memorabilia for an exhibition to open in Perth next year.
Topics: film-movies, popular-culture, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe first study of hundreds of poems and pictures scrawled on the walls of one of Australia's oldest convict prisons sheds light on the inmates' day-to-day hardships.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, visual-art, human-interest, fremantle-6160, wa
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| UpdatedAfter being taunted by other students, teenager Monique Mastrobattista has launched a campaign that encourages people to value kindness over school grades.
Topics: author, bullying, youth, human-interest, albert-park-3206, vic, australia
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| UpdatedThe 2016 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards hope to raise awareness of conservation issue while showcasing the "true playfulness of the animal kingdom".
Topics: photography, conservation, environment
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| UpdatedWhile London's Madame Tussauds is showing off work well underway on its waxwork of Donald Trump, its Paris rival has found itself on the wrong side of a bet that Hillary Clinton would win the US presidency.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, european-union
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| UpdatedRobert Vaughn, the actor best known for playing the suave Napoleon Solo in 1960s television spy series, The Man from UNCLE, died on Friday from leukaemia, his manager said.
Topics: death, actor, film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, united-states
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| UpdatedBetween 1970 and 1975, three books by Australian authors had a remarkable impact not only at home but around the world.
Topics: non-fiction, gays-and-lesbians, feminism, animal-welfare, history, arts-and-entertainment, australia
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| UpdatedDairy farms and hay fields are a long way from hip-hop's gritty roots in New York City, but a rap revolution is sweeping rural Australia.
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| UpdatedWhen it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a number of commentators claimed that Leonard Cohen would have been a more appropriate choice, David McCooey writes.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, death, awards-and-prizes, human-interest
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| UpdatedLeonard Cohen has died, and the lights have gone out all around the world — his death seems such a loss in a year of so many losses.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, bands-and-artists, community-and-society, death, australia, united-states
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Major improvements to the acoustics of the Concert Hall in the Sydney Opera House as part of a $200 million upgrade will be like 'taking cotton wool out of audience members' ears', the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's managing director says.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, opera-and-musical-theatre, sydney-2000
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A Red Cross flag flown on the beach during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 becomes part of the WA Museum's collection after a chance encounter and subsequent lobbying by a local historian.
Topics: world-war-1, library-museum-and-gallery, perth-6000, turkey
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| UpdatedSome of the most well known and loved songs of the late singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen who has died age 82.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, canada
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| UpdatedPeople around the world pay tribute to late legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, known best for his haunting hit song Hallelujah, after he died at the age of 82.
Topics: community-and-society, death, music, arts-and-entertainment, united-states, canada
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| UpdatedIt's a song that brought Australia's Vietnam veterans together, but it's not a work of fiction. It's about a real soldier: Mick Storen.
Topics: music, art-history, unrest-conflict-and-war, australian-composers, popular-culture, australia, vietnam
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An Australian family heirloom has been recognised as a rare piece of trench art and is gifted to a French war museum.
Topics: world-war-1, library-museum-and-gallery, human-interest, adelaide-5000, france