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Seachange Returns to TV, Taking Us Back to Pearl Bay 20 Years Later,
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'Television producer Deb Cox was in the process of moving her family from Melbourne to Byron Bay in 1997 when the ABC picked up Seachange, a show she created.' (Introduction)
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Eurydice Dixon's Friends Pay Tribute with Melbourne Fringe Festival Comedy Show,
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'Eurydice Dixon intended to use her sharp wit to write a play exploring ideas of a feminist sympathising with men's rights activists — but she never got to finish Inconvenient Empathy.' (Introduction)
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National Indigenous Music Awards 2019 : Mojo Juju Wins Album and Song of the Year,
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'Mojo Juju's honest account of disconnection and detachment from her Wiradjuri and Filipino heritage has connected with thousands and now won her the Album and Song of the Year at the 2019 National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs).' (Introduction)
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Meet Three of Tasmania's Female Aboriginal Elders,
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'The bonds of culture are strong, if not impenetrable, between the women who are regarded as Tasmania's Indigenous elders.'
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Virtual Reality Project Bringing Lost Theatres Back to Life,
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'When the Victoria Theatre in Newcastle opened in 1891, the audience was entertained with musical comedy and performances inside a prime example of Victorian theatre architecture.' (Introduction)
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Jeannie Baker Shares Secrets of Her Trade in Her New Children's Book Playing with Collage,
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'Children who have grown up with Jeannie Baker's books are united by the irrepressible urge to stroke the pages.' (Introduction)
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Tasmania Proving to Be Perfect Backdrop for Gothic Horror, with The Nightingale the Latest Addition,
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'Forget sunny skies and glistening beaches — bleak, austere and gloomy are the qualities of choice for Tasmanian film locations.'
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Barangaroo Performance Space on the Cards, as Arts Minister Admits to Shortage of Theatres in Sydney,
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'The NSW Government will look at options for a new theatre at Barangaroo as it seeks to create more capacity in Sydney, Arts Minister Don Harwin has promised.'(Introduction)
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The Nightingale Roots Horror in Tasmania's Colonial History with a Tale of Revenge,
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'Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent first made a name for herself with the lean, lo-fi horror film The Babadook.'
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Indigenous Broome Author Brenton E McKenna's Epic Journey Behind His Graphic-novel Success,
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'Bashed, beaten, rejected — how could writing a uniquely Australian comic book saga be this hard?
'In the process of becoming Australia's first-ever published Indigenous graphic novel author and publishing his epic three-volume magnum opus, Brenton E McKenna was battered physically and emotionally.
'It started as a boy's dream to create a novel-length comic depicting a fantasy world set in an Australian outback town.'
Source: Introduction.