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Designers put their soles into art

ART lies at the very soul of shoe-making. So shoe designers have put their best foot forward in the name of SALA - the 13-year-old South Australian Living Arts Festival.

Art Series Hotels to expand

Will Deague, founder of the Australia-based Art Series Hotels, has revealed details of the group's expansion plans.

New insight into wasting disease

Australian researchers have for the first time been able to see inside the mutant proteins that are responsible for the incurable illness Huntington's disease.

Indigenous Australian art: commercial code of conduct

The purpose of this code is to regulate the conduct of art dealers in the Indigenous art industry to ensure fair and ethical trade with artists; transparency in the process of promotion and sale of artwork; and a fair and equitable dispute resolution system. Justice

Discovery Provides New Hope For Huntington Disease Treatment

Australian scientists have identified the behaviour of the mutant protein 'huntingtin' which leads to the fatal Huntington's disease providing potential targets to treat the disease, a University of Melbourne study reveals. Huntington's disease is a genetic disease with no cure, characterized by a steady decline in motor control and the dysfunction and death of brain cells. The cause of the ...

"Animal connection" helps separate humans from other species

For centuries, people have tried to pinpoint what makes humans unique. The most current scientific theory suggests that three main qualities separate Homo sapiens from other animals: the construction and use of complex tools, the use of symbolic behavior including language, art, and ritual, and the domestication of other plants and animals. However, in a new paper in Current Anthropology , Dr ...

Labouring the pointe

A work of digital art full of ballet images and symbolism goes to the point of what women have endured.

SALA Local Life entries roll in

If you wander into the ABC Renmark studios this week you could be forgiven for mistaking the entry foyer for an art gallery.

Scientists identify mutant protein for Huntington's disease

Australian scientists have identified the behaviour of the mutant protein 'huntingtin' which leads to the fatal Huntington's disease providing potential targets to treat the disease, a University of Melbourne study reveals.

Remembering Benjamin McKay (1964-2010)

WALKING around Bangsar one balmy night six years ago, I bumped into filmmaker Amir Muhammad and film academic Khoo Gaik Cheng sitting with a rather foppish Mat Salleh man. It took less than an hour of my being introduced before all of us banded together to bully the hapless Australian Mat Salleh to prove that [...]

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