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Nellie Small: the trailblazing, cross-dressing cabaret star who Australia forgot

When women weren’t even allowed in Sydney’s pubs, Small was there singing the blues, dressed in a masculine suit. But her remarkable life was marred by racism and bigotry

The Guardian - AU

Shakespeare’s First Folio: State Library of NSW takes the Bard’s ‘radical’ 400-year-old book out of the vault

Half of Shakespeare’s plays would have been lost without it – and it is now among the most valuable books in the world

The Guardian - AU

Indigenous author Debra Dank sweeps NSW Premier’s Literary Awards with memoir We Come With This Place

Indigenous author Debra Dank has won a record four out of 14 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and $85,000 for her memoir of family and place, and says she hopes its success draws attention to the "soul-destroying" destruction of her Country.

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Medicare has been under pressure for years. So is it broken and can it be fixed?

These experts say Medicare is at breaking point and it's time for major reform.

ABC News

State Library of NSW staff angered by acquisition of Jacinta Price portrait by controversial cartoonist

Staff reportedly complained to state librarian John Vallance about the $20,000 painting by the Australian’s Johannes Leak, which can only be viewed by appointment

The Guardian - AU

The wild history and current fight over Sydney's Metro-Minerva Theatre

An art deco building is at the centre of a fight between theatre advocates and a property developer. It highlights the question of what to do with neglected heritage buildings.

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Illegal Sydney warehouse parties, lives lost to AIDS, and gay liberation: photographer William Yang captured it all

Review: William Yang’s Sydneyphiles Reimagined, State Library of New South Wales.

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Hidden women of history: 'the Buzzwinker' Ellen Miles, child convict, goldfields pickpocket and vagrant

—Me name’s Miles; Ellen Miles, remarked an old woman at the City Court yesterday. —And you are charged with vagrancy, stated Sergeant Eason. Can you show the Bench that you have means of support? —'How can I support myself when I’m continually in gaol and not a shilling coming into…

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Hill End artist cottages out to tender, prompting panic in art community

For almost 80 years, the cottages of Hill End have played a defining role in the careers of hundreds of Australian artists. Now, for the first time, they could be opened up for other uses like short-term accommodation.

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