Who Stole the Southern Cross? A Cautionary Tale for Public Art

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Eating together online: The ambivalent conviviality of ASMR videos
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Francis Russell

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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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In conversation with Sabrina Baker

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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
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Eat the problem: MONA's carnivalesque of cuisine
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Violent dreams of development: A food bowl in the north‑west of Australia?
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Alana Hunt

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Curator and cultural visionary Kevin Murray asks what happened to Southern Cross Station, once Spencer Street Station now lost under a morass of advertising. Where is the public art?

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