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Black Saturday Bushfires: Five years on
Today, on a menacingly hot Melbourne Friday, residents of Australia’s southern city are marking five years since the day when catastrophe was visited upon the city’s urban fringe.
Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival kicks off today
Melbourne’s annual Indigenous Arts Festival kicks off today, showcasing a range of Indigenous theatre, music, literature, film, cabaret, dance and visual arts.
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka’s ‘little Britain’?
Nuwara Eliya is an anomaly, a cold-weather town in Sri Lanka’s tropical climate. Much higher up than Kandy, Nuwara Eliya is a pleasant, less-touristed (but by no means untouristed) get-away-from-it-all.
Federation Square hosts Melbourne Japanese Summer Festival today
A festival of all things Japanese is descending on a very hot Federation Square today with the annual Melbourne Japanese Summer Festival.
Laneway Festival to rock Sydney today
The annual Sydney edition of the St Jerome’s Laneway Festival is held in the harbour city today, after yesterday’s Melbourne event.
Cool tunes by the waves at the St Kilda Festival
At 1pm today the nine-day St Kilda Festival will kick off a nine-day extravaganza of music, movies, art and culture.
Melbourne to sizzle with the Latin Summer Festival
Melbourne’s annual Latin Summer Festival is to begin at midday today in Federation Square and Birrarung Marr.
Melbourne’s Laneway Festival returns home
The annual St Jerome’s Laneway Festival is held in Melbourne today, after the year in which it made its North American debut.
Chinese New Year ushers in the year of the horse
Today is the first day of the Chinese lunar calendar year, with Chinese communities welcoming the new year around the world at midnight last night.
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