Festivals

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Health & Medicine

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Opinion

Pill testing is the right choice

The Victorian government’s decision to introduce drug testing demonstrates it takes its duty to prevent harm seriously

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Arts & Culture

What we can learn from festivals like Rainbow Serpent

Transformative festivals like Australia’s Rainbow Serpent are a global phenomena, and research on these grand social experiments is yielding insights into human organisation and cooperation

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Arts & Culture

Jon Cattapan: A portrait of the artist as a new director

As he begins a new role as Director at the Victorian College of the Arts, Jon Cattapan talks life, loss and longevity in one of his most cherished places: his studio

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Arts & Culture

Jonathan Mills on music, mavericks and Melbourne

From dream to reality: How the world-renowned festival director created the inventive and wondrous Cultural Collisions program

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