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Turning Squid Game into a real-life reality show seems ridiculous, but it makes utterly gripping TV

With 456 players, Squid Game: The Challenge is the biggest, most brutal reality TV show yet.
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'Part of the culture': Why Australians have been obsessed with Doctor Who for 60 years

Doctor Who has been on our screens for 60 years. Australians have been loving and contributing to the show for that entire time. Find out how the Doctor remains connected to fans Down Under.
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TikTok filters are the latest weapon in online activism — but do they work?

TikTok creators say using this filter will raise money for charity. It's the latest example of digital activism sweeping social media platforms, but it sounds a little too good to be true — so, is it?
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David won't let Down syndrome stop him from becoming a singing, dancing, acting triple-threat

David Waldie's dream is to become Australia's next musical talent. His debut album Speak Your Truth challenges perceptions on Down syndrome.
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Miss Universe 2023: Flames, a plane and a train in national costume show

Miss Universe has been modernising in recent years. However, the national costume section continues to deliver the bold, theatrical looks fans have been used to seeing. 
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'A great reckoning of our history': Leonardo DiCaprio on new Martin Scorsese film

Leonardo DiCaprio teams up with acclaimed director Martin Scorsese once again on the epic movie, 'Killers of the Flower Moon'. The movie based on the true story of the Osage nation and how oil and greed led to a dark time in US history also star Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone. The stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone share the journey of filming the epic movie.
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Duration: 5 minutes 1 second

Hooray! These are the top five Bluey episodes as voted by you

We asked you to vote for your favourite episode in the Biggest Little Bluey Countdown, and biscuits! Here are your favourites.
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Impostor syndrome, lack of time among the challenges women face as writers — but these can be overcome

The director of a writers' festival in Australia says it's time women stopped apologising for being writers — and she suggests writing in your car if that's the only time you have.
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Australian art and fashion icon unite for new exhibition

Artist Lisa Gorman's artwork will be showcased alongside the art of Mirka Mora at an exhibition at the Warrnambool Art Gallery in Victoria.
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Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds

Romantic hero or coercive criminal? The man who lived with the corpse of the woman he loved

In Exquisite Corpse, award-winning Australian author Marija Peričić gives voice to the women caught up in a man's macabre obsession with a dead patient.
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Magic, nudity, dark satire: 'Unstageable' Russian literary masterpiece brought to life in Sydney

Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is notoriously difficult to adapt. But that hasn't stopped one Sydney theatre company staging a new production of the Russian literary masterpiece.
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Jessica Au's novella a 'crystalline technical feat' as it wins $80,000 national literary award

Her novella, Cold Enough for Snow, has seen the Melbourne author win the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction, while journalist-turned-farmer Sam Vincent won the non-fiction category for his book, My Father and Other Animals.
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'I read banned books!': Pink to give out 2,000 'banned' books at her Florida concerts

In response to increasing censorship in the United States, pop star Pink is giving away 2,000 copies of books banned in Florida — the state that has cracked down hardest on public schools and libraries this year. 
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Jennifer Aniston says loss of Friends co-star Matthew Perry 'has cut deep'

Matthew Perry's Friends co-stars Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow have now paid their own personal tributes to the late actor on social media. 
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How do you make a prequel for a series as big as The Hunger Games? We asked the director

Francis Lawrence talks casting Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth in the new Hunger Games prequel.
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David Holmes was flying high as a Harry Potter stunt double – until he was paralysed on-set

In the wizarding world, Harry Potter is known as "the boy who lived". In reality, it's Daniel Radcliffe's main stunt double, David Holmes, who is lucky to be alive.
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The treasures of Pharaoh Ramses II arrive in Australia

There's been a flurry of excitement at the Australian Museum recently where the ancient artefacts of Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, have found a temporary new home.
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ARIA Awards 2023: Troye Sivan takes home four awards, tearful G Flip wins two — Here's the full list of winners

Australian music's night of nights is here, the 2023 ARIA Awards. Here's the full list of winners in all categories.
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Troye Sivan accepts an ARIA Award for Song of the Year.

Wear no underwear and listen to the megaphone: What to do at the Spencer Tunick shoot in Brisbane

Spencer Tunick has photographed thousands of naked people all over the world, from Barcelona to Bondi. In November, it's Brisbane's turn.
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Courtney Cox and Matt LeBlanc pay tribute to Matthew Perry

Cox, who played Perry's wife on Friends, posts behind-the-scenes footage of the pair, saying there are "there are thousands of moments I wish I could share". 
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Emma Watkins nominated for ARIA as Emma Memma in same category as The Wiggles

The ceremony for the music industry's premier awards, the ARIAs, will take place tonight with Emma Memma nominated for Best Children's Album. So are the Wiggles.
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The Thursday Murder Club is taking the world by storm — just don't call it cosy crime

Richard Osman is one of the most popular authors on the planet, and he's in Australia for the first time promoting his new book, The Last Devil to Die.
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The Marvels has had the MCU's worst opening weekend at the box office. What went wrong?

Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest movie instalment, The Marvels, has had a disappointing opening weekend at the box office, recording $US47 million in sales in the US — the lowest amount the comic book franchise has recorded to date. 
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Western Sydney theatre is 'putting the nation on stage' with its diverse, history-making 2024 program

From a sassy take-down of cultural appropriation to an unsolved Iranian murder mystery, The National Theatre of Parramatta’s 2024 season is boldly bringing BIPOC stories to the Australian stage.  
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'We went for the throat': Matrix producer brings horror show to Tiktok in one-minute episodes

In one-minute snippets, writers and directors of a new Western Sydney series need to grab their audience, because, unlike a movie screen, their film is being shown on phones across the world.
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