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Scotland the brave, as Mills shifts Edinburgh axis

JONATHAN Mills is certainly a social gadfly. In Sydney, at last Friday's post-performance party of Bliss, the Edinburgh International Festival director revealed the news that everyone there — let alone almost everywhere else on the continent — already knew: Opera Australia's new production of Brett Dean's opera is going overseas.

Escaping heat and on holiday, they met death

A COUPLE who perished on a remote bush track on Black Saturday had made desperate attempts to call 000 as the fire that destroyed Marysville bore down upon them.

Open window on a homely topic inspires return visit

"HAUNTING" may be an overused adjective in criticism but it's the most literal description for The Dwelling exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, which has won The Age Critics' Prize for the 2009 Melbourne International Prize.

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Hibbs: Seeking descendants of First Fleet sailor Peter Hibbs, of the Sirius, and Mary Pardoe, who arrived on the Lady Juliana in 1790. Reunion to be held in the community hall at Spencer from 9am on September 13. Associated names include Byrnes, Cox,Webber, Izzard, Kelly and Norman. Contact Roy Cox,..read more

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