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Thursday, February 21

Film Festival review: She Who Must Be Loved

She Who Must Be Loved – about Aboriginal media pioneer Freda Glynn – sheds light on both an epic life story and the lasting impact of Australia’s social history.

The epic story of an unlikely wartime friendship

The extraordinary story of a Ngarrindjeri Digger and a Jewish German ethnologist who became lifelong friends after meeting in a World War I POW camp is being brought to life in a new South Australian play which will have its first readings this month.

The Madjedbebe excavation in the Northern Territory. Dominic O Brien/Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation. Author provided

NT find tells a new history of humans in Australia

A new study pushes back the first known evidence of human activity in Australia – to 65,000 years ago. Here the research team – including Chris Clarkson from The University of Queensland – describe the significance of their discoveries.