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During the 20th century, a series of low-level weirs were built at the small towns along the river to secure water supplies. Settlers sought the same river features to build weirs that Indigenous people did when choosing sites for stone fish traps, so many weirs were built on outcropping rock.

Secret artworks are all around us – you only have to look. Public art expert Barbara Flynn offers a do-it-yourself guide and the stories behind some of Sydney’s newest public art.

A new exhibition at the University of Melbourne challenges us to not compare Indigenous with Western technology, but to see the “Emu Sky” in its own light.

The 23rd Sydney Biennale features more than 300 works across six venues that respond to the theme of "rivers."

<strong>Friday</strong>: Russia has been accused by the UK, the US, France, Albania, Ireland and Norway of war crimes, and France says Putin is only pretending to negotiate. Plus: when will eastern Australia’s wet weather end?

The Curatorium says: ‘rīvus is articulated around a series of conceptual wetlands situated along waterways of the Gadigal, Barramatagal and Cabrogal peoples. These imagined ecosystems are populated by artworks, experiments and research, responding to our connections, and disconnections, with water.

This year’s show, titled rīvus, is a beautiful but worrying study of water, with more than 300 artworks across the city

Somewhat fortuitously, the theme of this year’s visual arts festival is water.

Somewhat fortuitously, the theme of this year’s visual arts festival is water.

Somewhat fortuitously, the theme of this year’s visual arts festival is water.