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What are the key characteristics of the Australian accent? How has it evolved – and is there only one, a couple or many?

From the Bowraville murders to the crippling effects of anxiety, eight prime-time documentaries from Australia's best filmmakers will be unveiled in 'Australia Uncovered', starting Sunday 12 September at 8:30pm on SBS.

Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll have cast their eyes over a batch of recently released fiction and non-fiction books. Here, they share their recaps and reviews.

The complexity of epidemics   One of easiest ways to wreck a conversation is to reduce a topic to two opposed views or actions between which a choice must be made. One must be for censorship or against it, endorse capitalism or socialism, be liberal or conservative, a friend or enemy of China, and so on. This way of thinking leaves no room for exploration, in which the conversation partners enter with curiosity the world of those from whom they differ, and so are open to qualify their own cer...

Atong Atem explores the history of African migration to Australia in Banksia, at Adelaides Illuminate festival © Provided by ABC NEWS Banksia was supposed to open at Melbournes Rising festival, but its season ended after just one day due to lockdown.  (Supplied: Rising/Ari Tampubolon) In 2019, when Melbourne-based South Sudanese artist Atong Atem was invited to exhibit her striking portrait photographs at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, little did she know she was about to embark on a...

Qatar welcomed its first 10 pure electric Yutong buses to the fleet with a ceremony at Mowasalat (Karwa) HE Mr. Jassim bin Saif Al-Sulaiti, Minister of Transport and Communications, HE Dr. Eng. Saad bin Ahmed Al-Muhannadi, President of the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) and Mowasalat (Karwa) Chairman, HE Mr. Hassan Abdulla Al-Thawadi, Secretary General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, HE Mr. Zhou Jian, Ambassador of the Peoples Republic of China to the State of Qatar and Mr P...

First Nations right of reply in History Bites Back We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size History Bites Back - Trisha Moreton-Thomas, Stephen Oliver and Elaine Crombie. Credit: A rage burns steadily throughout History Bites Back, filmmaker and actress Trisha Morton-Thomas’ funny and confronting “right of reply” to the ignorance about Indigenous history perpetrated on social media, especially around January 26. As the narrat...

The Library seeks to build comprehensive collections where relevant materials are acquired to the greatest extent possible; representative collections where the Library selects a manageable amount of material to represent a type, creator or subject; and selective collections where items of national priority or special significance are identified and collected, or where depth of collecting is prioritised above breadth. This section of the policy is arranged in sequence from comprehensive to sele...

George Carter (1737-1795) Death of Captain Cook, 1781. The Pictures collection includes material in a wide variety of formats which document significant people, places and events in Australian history and society and to some extent, the activities of Australians overseas, especially in Antarctica and Papua New Guinea. Comprising photographs, prints, drawings, watercolours, cartoons, miniatures, paintings, architectural plans, objects and sculpture, the collection documents the lives of past and...

Save Share The release of the Palace Papers last year was meant to settle one of the enduring questions of the 1975 dismissal: was there a smoking gun implicating Buckingham Palace and the Queen in the decision of governor-general Sir John Kerr to sack the Whitlam government? Perhaps unsurprisingly, it did no such thing. The ardent republicans and Whitlam supporters saw nods and winks from the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris, to Kerr. The monarchists and Coalition supporter...