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They’re so back: Kings of Leon find their way home on ‘O My Beloved’

Kings of Leon's O My Beloved arrives not as a return to the fast and fun, loud and hook-driven highs of Aha Shake Heartbreak and Only by the...

Young voices, diverse stories: Australian Poetry Slam crowns its 2026 champion

On October 25, the Sydney Opera House hosted the grand final of the Australian Poetry Slam. The 2026 competition brought together 16 poets from across Australia, with contestants...

Snowflake

A fiercely funny and deeply moving story of our divided times, exploring the fragile bridge between two generations.

Sydney Metro rules out platform extensions on $30 billion line as passenger demand grows

Sydney Metro has ruled out extending station platforms between Sydenham and Bankstown, confirming that future capacity increases on the M1 Metro line will depend...

Sydney’s data centre boom runs into electricity grid limits

Sydney’s data centre boom is putting pressure on Transgrid, NSW’s largest electricity transmission network. Transgrid warned there was insufficient capacity to accommodate the 20...

No Bad Avalanches

There are bands, and then there are institutions. The Avalanches belong firmly in the second category...

Kings run Melbourne down

Twenty-one points down. At home. Against a Phoenix side throwing everything at them. If the Kings needed a reminder that championship teams are built in the ugly...

Powerhouse Parramatta opens on the banks of the river

Powerhouse Parramatta, the largest museum in NSW, officially opened on Saturday 7 November, bringing five major exhibitions exploring art, science, technology and history to...
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Lost in a weekend sound

Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend is thick with atmosphere, a record that takes the small, uncomfortable furniture of grief and heartbreak and places it inside...

Dad loses his words. Sydney knows them.

What stayed with the audience at #1...

OUT & ABOUT – November 2026

Playgroups in the Park, Tuesday 10 November,...

Reading together: Ashley Kalagian Blunt brings books to Randwick

In a cafe at Circular Quay, one...

Learning to pay attention

What if the way we pay attention to the world changes the world we experience? This is the fascinating question explored by psychiatrist and philosopher...

Tanya Plibersek’s plan to end violence against Indigenous women and children and its progress so far

Minister for Social Services Tanya Plibersek launched a ten-year action plan in February to end family, domestic and sexual violence against Aboriginal and Torres...

First Nations Fashion Design reclaims the runway

In a fashion system historically built on the exclusion of First Nations representation, Reclamation, staged on the eve of Australian Fashion Week (11–15 May),...

Always was and always will be Aboriginal land

On Anzac Day, hundreds gathered in Redfern for the 19th annual Coloured Diggers March, honouring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans and their enduring...

Lost in a weekend sound

Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend is thick with atmosphere, a record that takes the small, uncomfortable furniture of grief and heartbreak and places it inside...

Dad loses his words. Sydney knows them.

What stayed with the audience at #1 Dads' concert at Sydney's Lansdowne Hotel on Thursday 5 November was not a perfectly delivered chorus. It...

Reading together: Ashley Kalagian Blunt brings books to Randwick

In a cafe at Circular Quay, one of Australia’s most popular crime writers, Ashley Kalagian Blunt, shares with me an early childhood memory about...
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