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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2025 Edition Hyperallergic’s annual antidote to the lists of wealthy collectors, royals, and so-called tastemakers that pervade the art media.

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Jacqueline Rose · When the Messiah Comes: When I met Netanyahu Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without...

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Game Worlds: Playable Exhibition | Memo Game Worlds: Playable Exhibition at Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) featuring William Kentridge; Harun Farocki; Victor Erice; Abbas Kiarostami; Jarra Karaliner Steel by Giles Fielke

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SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today

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I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh

Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point. Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

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Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage Concerns that tech company’s Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigation

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Attacks on the humanities at Australian universities are not new – but they are now more lethal | Julianne Schultz Punishing fees for arts degrees must be ended if the country seriously wants to participate in the information age and give students the opportunities we need them to have

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‘South Park’s most furious episode ever’: the jaw-dropping Satanic takedown of Donald Trump They’ve depicted the president’s privates. They’ve shown him in flagrante with the devil. The makers of the foul-mouthed US cartoon have certainly thrown down the gauntlet …

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The wrong way to respond to antisemitism • Robert Manne Jillian Segal’s proposals won’t only erode free speech but could also worsen the problem she was asked to tackle

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Australian law is clear: criticism of Israel does not breach the Racial Discrimination Act The Federal Court recently found it is not inherently antisemitic to criticise the state of Israel or the Israel Defense Forces.

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Antisemitism plan fails on a number of fronts – a contentious definition of hate is just the start The antisemitism strategy could stoke social divisions due to its reliance on biased arguments, weak evidence and overreach in its recommendations.

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‘Gross overreach’: Labor group urges Albanese to reject key parts of antisemitism envoy plan Exclusive: Labor Friends of Palestine concerned by Jillian Segal’s recommendation government adopt IHRA’s contested definition of antisemitism

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The special envoy’s plan is the latest push to weaponise antisemitism in Australia, as a relentless campaign pays off | Louise Adler

Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic

Australia is set to get more AI data centres. Local communities need to be more involved Data centres promise to boost the economy. But the everyday realities of communities living near them aren’t as optimistic.

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Kumanjayi Walker inquest: racism and violence, but findings too little and too late The inquest findings did not deliver a crushing blow to racial violence in the NT Police. It is a missed opportunity that will likely have devastating consequences.

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Creative Australia chief executive facing mounting pressure to resign after Khaled Sabsabi controversy Senior arts figure says board and CEO ‘didn’t seem to understand or at least trust the power and complexity of the visual arts’

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After the Sabsabi debacle, Creative Australia must learn to embrace controversy | Elizabeth Ann Macgregor

Australia's first 'dark-sky' accommodation sparks hopes of tourism boom A lodging in New South Wales has become the first to be internationally recognised as "dark-sky" accommodation, where visitors can take in the wonders of a clear night sky with little light pollution.

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@margaretsimons.bsky.social great piece on ABC & Creative Australia in the Guardian today

The ABC and Creative Australia panicked in the face of controversy. These vital institutions must not be so timid | Margaret Simons

Creative Australia’s backflip on Venice Biennale representatives exposes deep governance failures Khaled Sabsabi has been reinstated as Australia representative for the Venice Biennale. A review offers a damning but restrained post-mortem.

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The takeaway from the Venice Biennale saga: the art world faces deep and troubling structural inequality Creative Australia has reinstated Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino as the creative team for the 2026 Venice Biennale – after facing much criticism.

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Creative Australia will face pressure to make ‘safe’ artistic choices after Sabsabi controversy, industry figures warn

Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or revolutionary as it seemed.

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Lattouf's unlawful sacking exposed the power of lobbying on Australian media Antoinette Lattouf's unlawful sacking has exposed how lobby groups pressure the media.

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