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Illuminate Adelaide offers a vision of techno-optimism
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (270+ words) Illuminate Adelaide this year turns from techno-pessimism to possibilities of joy and playfulness. Against increasingly frictionless, motionless lives, experimental art demands that we embrace the discomfort of the unfamiliar. Rani weaves captivating intricacies of aural fabric as she throws her…...
Daring shows transcend bleak realities at Rising
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (613+ words) Article text size: This control adjusts article text size. For broader accessibility options, please use your browser or device text scaling settings. This year’s Rising bows to economic realities with a sparser program, but the result is more intimate as…...
‘Hall of mirrors’: Inside Melbourne’s arson mystery
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1351+ words) Article text size: This control adjusts article text size. For broader accessibility options, please use your browser or device text scaling settings. Police have arrested dozens of people – mostly teens – in a wave of arson attacks on Melbourne hospitality venues…...
ISIS Brides arrested on arrival in Australia
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (259+ words) Three women allegedly linked to Islamic State have been arrested and one has been charged, after a group of 13 known as the ‘ISIS Brides’ landed in Melbourne and Sydney on Thursday night. What we know: One woman was charged upon…...
Melbourne towers residents speak: ‘We all have anxiety’
10+ mon, 5+ day ago (786+ words) In September 2023, Victoria’s then premier, Daniel Andrews, announced plans to demolish 44 of Melbourne’s public housing towers. It was the kind of news best delivered sensitively, or with an exit strategy. Andrews had the latter – he resigned the next week. A…...
Two boys stabbed to death in Melbourne
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (252+ words) Police have reported that a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy were fatally stabbed in a suspected gang attack on the streets of a western Melbourne suburb. Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the murder of the two boys in Cobblebank,…...
Key child protection recommendations not implemented
11+ mon, 4+ week ago (1722+ words) Eight years since the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse handed down its final report, key recommendations to ensure child safety and prevent abuse have not been implemented. The reasons, experts say, are partly political and bureaucratic....