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Rosemary NeillSenior Writer, Review

Rosemary Neill is a senior writer with The Weekend Australian’s Review. She has been a feature writer, oped columnist and Inquirer editor for The Australian and has won a Walkley Award for feature writing. She was a dual finalist in the 2018 Walkley Awards and a finalist in the mid-year 2019 Walkleys. Her book, White Out, was shortlisted in the NSW and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.

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The National Museum of Australia is launching its biggest gallery redevelopment since it opened in 2001. Called the Great Southern Land gallery, it contains more than 2,100 objects illustrating Australia's environmental and cultural history. It has been designed by Local Projects, a New York firm who also worked on the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan.NMA director Mat Trinca in new the new gallery space with Diprotodon skull in the Kati-Thandi/Lake Eyre exhibit.Picture: The Australian / Gary Ramage

Museum boss to step down after a decade in role

National Museum of Australia director Mat Trinca says it’s time to make way for a ‘refreshment’ of leadership at the Canberra institution.

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‘white hands’Indigenous

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 28: Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke holds a press conference recommending states and territories to consider a speed up domestic use ban of silica within six months at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Minister to probe black art scandal

Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke has confirmed he is investigating allegations of significant white interference in Indigenous paintings.

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Actors Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in 1939 film Gone with the Wind. Picture: Supplied

Gone with the Lost Cause: O’Hara, Butler recast as ‘homicidal white supremacists’

The 20th century’s most famous fictional lovers had ‘profoundly fascistic worldviews’, according to an author who has mounted an excoriating critique of the novel-turned-film for its denialism of the horrors of slavery.

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exclusiveIndigenous

Rosie Palmer, manager of the Tjala Arts centre in the APY Lands of South Australia, is seen appearing to paint on the work of Indigenous artist Yaritji Young.

Concern for whistleblowers in black art scandal

Amid ‘serious’ allegations of white hands in Aboriginal paintings, Ku Arts has turned its focus to those who have publicly spoken out.

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Embargoed until Thursday night...11/4/18: The winner of the Stella Prize, Alexis Wright for her book called Tracker. Pictured at the Regent Hotel in Potts Point in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian

NT intervention ‘failed, exaggerated child abuse claims’

Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright’s epic new book argues the forces behind the intervention of grossly exaggerating paedophilia in remote Indigenous communities.

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Chaser star: people are tired of wokeness

In recent years Andrew Hansen started to panic about every line that he wrote. But now he feels when it comes to outrage, the pendulum is swinging back the other way.

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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: Michelle Yeoh attends the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

How woke politics are reshaping the Oscars

The behind-the-scenes campaigning – combined with the film colony’s diversity push – are shaping the Oscars, while stoking concerns the awards once caned for being #OscarsSoWhite risk turning into #OscarsSoWoke.

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Arts and CultureNation

3/3/23: Karine Mauris at Bondi Beach. Karine is the Artistic Director, French Film Festival in Australia, the largest event of its type outside France. John Feder/The Australian.

Quelle surprise: our love of French film

It’s the biggest showcase of contemporary French films outside France – and French Film Festival boss Karine Mauris says the Australian event’s “incredible” popularity has astonished cultural powerbrokers in her native country.

Rosemary Neill

stageReview

EMBARGO SA WEEKEND 12/11/22 Adelaide Festival 2023: A Little Life, by Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, A Little Life Picture: Jan Versweyveld

Prepare to be horrified: director brings torture to life

Trigger warning: A four-hour stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s wildly successful and deeply disturbing novel A Little Life is about to open to Australian audiences. How will they react?

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Episode 1. Billy Crudup, Nicholas Podany and Haneefah Wood in "Hello Tomorrow!," premiering February 17, 2023 on Apple TV+.

Selling the moon

Hollywood star Billy Crudup draws on his relationship with his ‘hustler’ salesman father for his latest TV role as a lunar real estate agent in Hello Tomorrow!

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