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Nominations have opened for the 2019 McKinnon Prize in Political Leadership, an annual prize which champions political leadership across all tiers of Australian government.

In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering, but Punch's

The revitalisation of the Hawaiian language

Two new masters courses, one of which is the first of its kind in the country, offer unique specialisations for arts professionals.

Sisters and soloists Baiba Skride (violin) and Lauma Skride (piano), with two of their favourite chamber music colleagues, Lisa Berthaud (viola) and Julian Steckel (cello), have taken the northern

A research team at the University of Melbourne has successfully trialled a music therapy program that can impact how people living with dementia are cared for at home.  

For Dr Andrew McAliece (BDSc 1985) and Dr Richard Simmie (MBBS 1978), the decision to support performing arts students, through their lifetime giving and a gift in their Wills, has opened up a whole

The Eulogy unravels the truths and myths behind the life and career of one of Australia’s most brilliant, prolific and least understood concert pianists, Geoffrey Tozer.

Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller is adapted for the screen by John Crowley (Brooklyn) in an epic tale of a young man’s odyssey following a traumatic childhood event.

From two-time Academy Award winning director Ron Howard and the team behind worldwide success The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, comes a documentary celebrating the life of the beloved opera star

Transmissible disease control, improved outcomes for neurological disorders, adolescent health and chronic disease are the focus of four new Centres for Research Excellence at the University of

The University of Melbourne remains the highest ranked Australian university in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, placing 32nd for the third year in a row.

The University of Melbourne has announced that it will invest at least $6 million to launch an Indigenous Knowledge Institute for world-leading Aboriginal knowledge, research and education.

The Mimir Chamber Music Festival returns to its second home at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music from 24 August – 1 September 2019, giving Australian audiences the opportunity to experience some

Presented in the stunning surrounds of The Ian Potter Southbank Centre, the new home of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Orpheus in the Underworld is a satirical treatment of the ancient Greek

The lid has been lifted on human wastefulness, but what next? A pop-up art/science exhibition from Science Gallery Melbourne is asking people to reimagine their waste.

Written by Walkley-award winning journalist Stan Grant, The Australian Dream is a documentary that features the remarkable, inspirational life of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes to tell a powerful

One of the most celebrated quartets to emerge from the USA, the Emerson String Quartet will present two programs at the Melbourne Recital Centre on Saturday 14 September and Tuesday 17 September in

August has been a significant month in the University of Melbourne calendar – with a focus on the important partnerships we share with our Indigenous communities and a commitment to truth telling,

A new scholarship has been created to attract the best and brightest rowers to study and row at the University of Melbourne.

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The latest film from Australian director Kriv Stenders (Red Dog), Danger Close tells the true story of a bloody battle that took place in South Vietnam in 1966. In the relentless rain and mud of a

Set during the colonisation of Australia in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he