Festivals
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Health & Medicine
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