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In his 2024 Boyer Lecture, Noongar, Yamatji and Wongi man and musician Aaron Wyatt notes that in order to become a musician, ...

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Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winning take on a rags-to-riches story set in the sex industry, and Guan Hu’s energetic, heartfelt ...

The limited legalisation of psychedelic-assisted therapy permits it in medicalised and hospital settings, but will that work ...

Role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons updates its rules – and its views on orcs’ inherent evil – to mark its 50th anniversary ...

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