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Bighouse Dreaming in the spotlight for YIRRAMBOI 2021

Arts Centre Melbourne is bringing Declan Furber Gillick's powerful show Bighouse Dreaming to the Fairfax Studio from 5 – 9 May as a part of YIRRAMBOI Festival. The award-winning work returns to Melbourne for the...

This 17,500-year-old kangaroo in the Kimberley is Australia’s oldest Aboriginal rock painting

 Picture: Damien Finch, Author provided In Western Australia’s northeast Kimberley region, on Balanggarra Country, a two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo spans the sloping ceiling of a...

Sunday essay: it’s time for a new museum dedicated to the fighters of the frontier wars

     Group of Aboriginal people with shields and spears, by Joseph Lycett, circa 1820. National Library of Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised...

Buxton – Useful Arts by Taloi Havini

Buxton Contemporary - Taloi Havini Useful Arts 2021 - 10 composite digital images© the artist Light Source Commission, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne,...

How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth

   Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020). Maxo, Bunya Productions, Savage Films   The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission...

Four Indigenous composers and a piano from colonial times — making passionate, layered, honest music together

 Nardi Simpson plays the square piano, similar to one that arrived on the First Fleet. Jamie Kidston, Author provided (No reuse) Despite having different cultural backgrounds...

Magic, culture and stalactites: how Aboriginal perspectives are transforming archaeological histories

   The main chamber of Cloggs Cave. Monash University archaeologist Joe Crouch is standing in the 1970s excavation pit, digging a new area in the...

Sunday essay: how a long-lost list is helping us remap Darug place names and culture on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River

Darug women Leanne Watson, Rhiannon Wright and Jasmine Seymour at Dorumbolooa. Avryl Whitney In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell...

Ancient stories and enduring spirit: Loving Country reminds us of the wonders right under our noses

Albany on the south coast of Western Australia, just under five hours’ drive from Perth. Photographer: © Vicky Shukuroglou taken from Loving Country Review: Loving...

Juukan Gorge inquiry puts Rio Tinto on notice, but without drastic reforms, it could happen again

Picture: RICHARD WAINWRIGHT/AAP On the eve of Reconciliation Week this year, news broke that Rio Tinto had destroyed ancient rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia to expand one of its...
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Thunderpussy Drops New Anthem “I Can Do Better”

Are you ready to have your musical world rocked? Because Thunderpussy is back and loyal to their name, they're bringing the thunder like never...

BILLIE EILISH announces HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR

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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.