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Students unite for major exhibition

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Connecting Australians research reveals importance of the arts

New survey reveals Australian attitudes towards the arts.
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New performing arts centre unveiled

The new Performing Arts Centre at St Luke’s College in Karratha was unveiled at an official opening.
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Acclaimed writer stars in film and television role

American filmmaker Billy Frolick, who co-wrote DreamWorks’ box-office hit Madagascar, will use his silver screen experience to inspire budding screenwriters as a...
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Seeking emerging creatives for TALENT CAMP

Create NSW is calling on emerging content creators and storytellers from diverse backgrounds across NSW to apply for up to 15 places...
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Grants music to the ears of Victorian schools

More than 2,000 instruments including keyboards, violins, trumpets, flutes and drums will be on their way to Victorian students, thanks to the...
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Facial recognition technology encourages empathy through art

How do we feel when someone blinks with our eyes? Smiles with our lips? Then, tells their own story.
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Giving students more opportunities in the South East

A new performing arts centre at Mordialloc College has been officially opened, providing more opportunities for students in the South East to...
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Helping Victorian students learn a musical instrument

More Victorian students will get the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, thanks to the Victorian Government.
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Inaugural Mordant Fellow selected for the the American Academy in Rome

The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the recipient of the inaugural Mordant Family/Australia Council Affiliated Fellowship.

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Humpback whales learn songs in segments – like the verses of a human song – and can remix them, a new study involving University of Queensland research has found.

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Built by a team of roboticists from the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (the Centre), headquartered at QUT, ‘CartMan’ the logistics robot will pit its item-picking skills against 15 other international robots in the third annual Amazon Robotics Challenge, part of RoboCup 2017 in Nagoya, Japan, on Thursday 27 July 2017.

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A false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) has been stranded and rescued in Top End waters for the first time.

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Runswift, the five-time world RoboCup soccer champion team, are heading to Japan for a showdown against their main rivals – robot teams from Germany and the United States.

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A senior scientist from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will discuss the latest climate science, including the potential for higher sea-level rise than previously projected, at ANU.

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A world-first commercial 3D printer that was invented in the Northern Territory has the potential to revolutionise manufacturing technology, NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner said.

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A new “artificial pancreas” being studied by the University of Melbourne could dramatically transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes.

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A 19-year-old law student from The University of Western Australia has invented an unmanned aerial vehicle that is capable of flying five times longer than many drones currently on the market.

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Writing in Physical Review X, researchers in Singapore and Australia propose a way you could use a quantum computer securely, even over the internet. The technique could hide both your data and program from the computer itself. Their work counters earlier hints that such a feat is impossible.

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University of Queensland research projects on inflammatory arthritis, infectious diseases and tissue regeneration have won prestigious national awards.

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