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Thursday 10 September 2026
190,000-year-old cave reveals how ancient human species lived and adapted
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UOW backs NSW investment in innovation and research commercialisation
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Arts and Culture
How migrant stories and contributions have shaped Australian TV since the 1950s
The introduction of television in Australia in 1956 coincided with mass post-war immigration, initially from Britain and Europe, and later from Asia, the Americas and Africa. Both played a significant role in forming modern society.
Arts and Culture
From Lahore to Sydney, a Muslim feminist’s debut novel rebels against the suffocation of safety
The genre of migrant autofiction, especially coming-of-age work, is blooming, but Raaza Jamshed’s book stands out.
Arts and Culture
A dreamscape of transcendental potential: Rhett Davis’ Arborescence is at once terrifying and bewitching
Davis addresses all the big-ticket concerns of our time: artificial intelligence, ecological disaster, societal decay, colonial culpability and overconsumption
Arts and Culture
Contemporary crime fiction has moved beyond conventional genre tropes
Just don’t call it ‘literary’
Arts and Culture
50 Artists: 50 Years celebrates five decades of Illawarra and Australian art
Exhibition features works by renowned artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre and Paul Ryan
Arts and Culture
A lost woman looks for purpose in a Guatemalan lakeside town
In The Sun Was Electric Light, Ruth arrives at Lake Atitlán a loner-searcher. But the people she meets are crucial to her struggles with the question of how to live