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SBS: Chair faces Parliamentary committee
On Thursday, the Chair of SBS Nihal Gupta apeared at a special hearing of a Senate Estimates Committee. The subject…

TV Shooter Producer, TV Research Skills, Music Composition, Writing For Hollywood & More: AFTRS Open
Hot courses in March include: RESEARCH SKILLS FOR TV, the hugely practical TV SHOOTER PRODUCER and Tracey Spicer’s TV PRESENTING:…

Hip Hop-eration
The message might be familiar, but this real-life look at an elderly hip hop dance group is buoyed by an…

Sydney Film Festival: turns State Theatre into a daytime colony
The Sydney Film Festival is refining its membership offers for 2015, going back to the past and building new shiny…

Inherent Vice
Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, a spiralling stoner detective comedy, is less a story than an atmosphere to imbibe.

Chinese Exhibition: the dragon awakes with more farce than flames
The exhibition revolution in China is much bigger than we think – and the battle against piracy may be a…

Ratings 8-13 March 2015: Outback ER displays its daggy charms
Thursday: ABC brings the real Australia, gets a bit of approval

What a digital aura can do for art
As privacy campaigners consider the dangers of mining metadata, we look at the implications for the arts of your online…

Final Awards Washup: putting 2014 in its coffin
Add all the key Australian awards for the non-craft categories and we discover a pretty fair dob of justice in…

AIDC/NET-WORK-PLAY: if we build it, will they come?
Does the world belong to the net? No, says Christie George, the picture palace can still rule our dreams. Which…