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By Arianna Levy

Arianna is a multi-platform reporter and producer in the ABC Brisbane newsroom. She joined the ABC in 2019 working in Sydney, Coffs Harbour and Orange. She was previously the News Breakfast reporter for Sydney. You can email her at levy.arianna@abc.net.au or find her on twitter at @ariannnalevy.

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Sarlis Master and the Origins of Sri Lanka’s Popular Visual Culture

Perhaps you have seen it before: a serene Bikkhu, hand resting in a bowl, rendered in soft pastel tones. The print often hangs slightly off-centre at the family shrine in an ancestral home. That familiar image is Sivali Maha Thera painted by Master M. Sarlis. Today it is remembered as a devotional icon, reproduced e…

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Inside 'kitty flipping', the recreational drug trend booming in Aussie cities

The phrase 'kitty flipping' might conjour up playful furballs or racy sex acts, depending on your turn of mind, but the reality is far more perilous.The term refers to combining the party drugs ketamine and MDMA (ecstasy) - and new research shows it's on the rise in Australia.A new Australia-wide study of our wast…

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He’s the most powerful crime fighter in NSW. For him, no one is off limits

In the days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, Stephen Dametto grappled with the scale of the tragedy. By then a seasoned organised crime and counter-terrorism investigator with the Australian Federal Police, Dametto had spent years preparing for worst-case scenarios.

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First look at legendary Leichhardt restaurant Grappa’s upmarket spin-off at The Rocks

It has been more than 60 years since Antonio Colosi first laid eyes on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He arrived in Australia on a passenger liner transporting post-war migrants from Italy, and went on to open a restaurant in Leichhardt in 1999 with son Charlie Colosi. They named it Grappa, after the pressed grapeskin d…

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Dezi Freeman's hideout: Inside Australia's most famous shipping container

Shaky watermarked footage from inside a shipping container doesn't normally produce this sort of reaction.But when that metal box is the last known hiding place of Australia's most wanted man, who was killed just outside in a hail of bullets following months on the run, there's an audience for every little detail.Th…

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