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Adelaide's Festival Plaza is being lost to commercial interests, critics of a proposed skyscraper say, amid calls for a rethink about how the Riverbank precinct is being developed.

Australia's first Indian film festival is pulling away from the stereotypes of Bollywood, screening South Asian films in multiple languages and genres.

As the live music scene faces immense pressures, community and council-run gigs seem to be filling a void left by cancelled festivals.

Lauren was on a mission to listen to more music by women, and so a new record store was born — one where her three daughters could also work.

Samuel Beckett's plays challenged the norm in the mid-20th century, so it's fitting that a director who champions new writers should open the Adelaide Festival with his major work, Krapp's Last Tape.

The National Library's latest exhibition, Fit to Print: Defining Moments from the Fairfax Photo Archive, comprises around 150 photographs that illustrate moments in Australian history from the 1890s until the late 1940s.

When Muriel Hillion's grandparents were growing up on Réunion island, maloya music and dance was banned. Today she proudly performs it on stages across WA.

Media coverage of the Adelaide Fringe is often centred on box office sales, but what's often overlooked is the millions of dollars in backroom deals that secure tours for local acts.

The wives and girlfriends of professional athletes were once relentlessly targeted by the tabloids. Now, social media has given way to a new generation of women who are connecting directly with fans.

The ABC's award-winning drama The Newsreader is back for a third season — so how much does it get right about late-80s news and culture, and where are the white lies?

Sydneysiders are welcoming in the Lunar New Year with events across the city, including dragon boat races, street festivals, lion dances and more. Here's what's on.

The skies above Lake Burley Griffin are pretty vast. But potentially not vast enough to leave enough space for flying foxes and drones to travel across it at the same time.

The Australian Open has been serving up intrigue and interest to thousands of tennis fans in Melbourne but this year some headlines have been on the crowds.

From Alanis and Mariah to Björk and Shania, from Oasis and Blur to 2Pac and Silverchair, here's what we were listening to in 1995.

NSW Police have responded to a series of incidents in Sydney on New Year's Eve, including multiple separate stabbings and reports of assaults.

Police have responded to more than 50 assaults but say they were generally happy with the behaviour of Melburnians ringing in the new year.

Across the country, at the stroke of midnight, fireworks displays explode under the night sky to mark the beginning of a new year. But where does this tradition of celebrating New Year's Eve with fireworks come from? 

It's time to ring in the new year — from public transport, to scheduled fireworks timings and best vantage points, here's everything you need to know about the Sydney's New Year's Eve celebrations.

Amid the final preparations for the New Year's Eve fireworks in Sydney, organisers have assured visitors that plans for public transport remain a priority.

The Pompeii exhibition at the National Museum of Australia uses immersive audiovisual elements alongside artefacts to show attendees what life may have been like.