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  1. 56km of packing tape provides endless fun at Ipswich Art Gallery

    An art installation built using 56 kilometres of packing tape has been constructed at Ipswich Art Gallery — the largest of its kind in the world.

  2. The Mix

    This week on The Mix: Zan Rowe sits down with Flume to discuss music, touring, and surfing 150 kilometres from the nearest beach, photography group The Light Collective captures the vast beauty of Lake Eyre, and we profile pop artist and Catholic nun Sister Corita Kent.

  3. Andrew Sachs, best known as Manuel in Fawlty Towers, dies at the age of 86

    Andrew Sachs, best known for his role of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, has died at the age of 86 after struggling with dementia.

  4. World Chess Championship: Magnus Carlsen beats Sergey Karjakin

    Norway's Magnus Carlsen has retained his World Chess Championship title after winning a series of tie-break matches.

  5. Opera performers with disabilities get ready for Orpheus and Eurydice

    A group of performers with disabilities working alongside Opera Queensland are getting ready to take the stage for a performance of Orpheus and Eurydice.

  6. Australia Wide 3 December

    In this episode: Dog therapy helping kids in need, a daughter's quest to honour her father's fashion legacy, coroners inquests, are they always necessary? Burnt cars, trash or treasure? #AustraliaWide.

  7. One Plus One: Deborah Cheetham

    Opera singer Deborah Cheetham was forcibly removed from her birth mother at three weeks old, and re-homed with a white Baptist family in Sydney. Only as an adult did she discover her personal history as part of the Stolen Generation.

  8. Now showing: Our weekly look at some of the new movie releases.

    In ABC News Breakfast's "Now Showing" movie segment, we look at the Dreamworks animated feature "Trolls", and the latest installment in the "Underworld" franchise.

  9. Pussy Riot activist stars in theatre group's Australian show

    Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina is drawing on her personal experience of imprisonment for a performance of the Belarus Free Theatre's "Burning Doors" which premiere's tonight at the Melbourne Arts Centre.

  10. Artist creates Mother Teresa portrait from staples

    An Albanian artist on Monday unveiled a portrait of Mother Teresa using staples, in a call for European countries to stop raising fences to shut their borders to refugees.

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