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Bangarra’s Spirit. Photo © Lisa Tomasetti COVID-19 has been cruel to artists, not least Indigenous artists. In July 2020, the performers of Bangarra Dance Theatre, founded in 1989, resumed rehearsing each day in a small studio after a four-month furlough. The ensemble of 17 full-time dancers had reluctantly postponed plans to premiere a five-week season of a new show, SandSong, inspired by land and jila (living water) of the Western Australian Kimberley region, at the Sydney Opera House in June. The work, seeded from an idea by the late actor Ningali Lawford-Wolf, who died aged 52 from ...

Lapsed bookworm? How you can get back into the habit of reading We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Are you reluctant to curl up with a good book? Were you once an avid reader, but you’ve lost the habit? Is there always something more important to do, or more TV series to binge watch, or more social media to scroll? You are not alone. A UK study in 2015 revealed that almost a third of the population, about 16 million people, were lapsed readers. They had not read since leaving formal education, or because their...

Another peerless performance from Pat Cummins enhances his edifying summer, confirming his statistical pre-eminence, writes Russell Jackson.

Pups, vampires and a president: The bestselling books of 2020 We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Local authors accounted for eight of the 10 bestselling books in Australia last year, with the irrepressible blue heeler, Bluey, the subject of three of them. The canine hero of the ABC TV series, created by Ludo Studios in Brisbane, had seven books in the overall top 20, with combined sales exceeding 910,000 copies. Despite the emergence of coronavirus and the consequent lockdowns that forced many bricks and mortar ...

Robert Macklin. First up will no doubt be the achievement of Pat Turner, the wonderful Gudanji-Arrernte woman who demanded the federal government seal off the outback Aboriginal communities from all potential COVID-19 carriers, thus preventing the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of our First Nations people.  Born in Alice Springs in 1952, Pat’s father died in a work accident when she was 11, but her mother – and great uncle Charles Perkins – saw that she received a good education in Adelaide.  She joined the APS and trained as a welfare officer; came to Canberra in 1978 where she ...