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Ten hairdressers in Devonport are being turned into 'reading salons' in a bid to encourage the city's children to read.
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A new book shines a light on the talented female creatives working across fashion, music and art in Brisbane.
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A day in the life of a conservators Denyl Cloughley, Freya Merrell and Rachel Sawicki at the National Library of Australia.
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Imagine handling objects worth millions of dollars and, on the rare occasion, smeared with the blood of a US president. It is all in a day's work for a conservator.
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| UpdatedThey were once a huge investment for the family home and a vital part of any school library, but encyclopaedias have now passed into history and can barely be given away.
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A campaign is launched to highlight the significance of Indigenous history at Victoria's Hanging Rock, rather than the fictional story Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Distinguished historian Jill Roe, best known for her celebrated biography of Australian writer Miles Franklin, has died aged 76.
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Daliyah Arana, who at the age of four has read more than 1,000 books, has been invited to serve as a "librarian for a day" at the world's largest library — the US Library of Congress.
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As children around the country consider what sport to take up for the new year, those on Queensland's Sunshine Coast pull out broomsticks and snitches to have a go at 'kidditch'.
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| UpdatedAustralia's oldest book shop is preparing to close after more than 170 years of trading in Launceston, Tasmania.
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| UpdatedTasmanian author of the Blue Day Book Richard Trevor Greive criticises his own publisher for their "disgusting validation of hate" in doing a book deal with a US right-wing figure.
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An annotated edition of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's notorious manifesto, becomes a non-fiction bestseller in Germany.
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Half a lifetime lived in drought is providing fodder for this young Queensland writer.
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