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AUSTRALIA DAY | Our Honeymooning Nomad gets right into the spirit of things, and shows Aussie expats in London how to soak up the best of Australia on Australia Day.

Superstar Brad Pitt has landed in Sydney after taking part in the awards season in Hollywood.

AUSTRALIA DAY | Living the expat life in the UK has its advantages, but when it comes to voting in Triple J's Hottest 100 it's easy to feel like you're in the dark. Our music guru GEORGE KATRALIS sheds some light on what songs have been big in Oz over...

REVIEW | In A Question of Consent, theatre company CRAFT use techniques of physical exhaustion to capture the real life suffering of its characters. This provocative performance is currently playing at The Rag Factory.

AUSTRALIA DAY | Here's the list of all the best Aussie celebrations around London. Whether you’re in the east, south, west or north, rest assured there’ll be a pub somewhere near you putting on an Aussie themed shindig for you and your mates.

AUSTRALIA DAY | Ahead of the screening of The Castle as part of the Australia Day Weekender at The Clapham Grand, here are the top 10 quotes from arguably the best Aussie film of all time.

Australian actor-comedian Tim Minchin is planning to create a musical adaptation of Harold Ramis' 1993 film Groundhog Day.

AUSTRALIA DAY | Kylie and Dannii Minogue have been embraced throughout the UK for their hugely successful singles and headline-hogging love lives, but now London is preparing to welcome the stars’ largely unknown third sister, as she brings her very own cabaret to town.

The creepy "star is born" promotional trailer for season three of The Voice UK sees the judges, including Kylie Minogue acting as maternity ward doctors.

Bogan Bingo are celebrating the start of a new year with a ripper January ticket offer and a bucket load of giveaways including trips to Turkey, Spain and Eqypt.

AUSTRALIA DAY | Wine merchant Humble Grape is inviting you to a special post Australia Day event at The Haciendas Club where you can taste premium reds and whites from the best Aussie artisan producers.

Jetlag is celebrating all that is great about Australia with a line up of Australian film, sport, food, drink and the favourite songs of 2013 as voted by Aussies.

Visiting a dusty old London museum barely sounds like the place to grab a quick adrenaline fix - but there are still plenty of knuckle-shredding activities to indulge in within the capital. Here are five of the best:

From WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Australia's answer to Justin Bieber, Australian Times got it straight from the horse's mouth in 2013. Here are this year's Top 10 interviews.

A new musical piece about the ignored (and non-existent) third Minogue sister, Erin is coming to London in January 2014.

REVIEW | In Vogue - Songs by Madonna sees Australian musical theatre performer Michael Griffiths embodying the Queen of Pop and performing unplugged versions of all her classic hits.

Discovering a potential cure for AIDS, and a cure for flat beer; the closing of iconic Australian venues in London; and a story about someone falling over, were among the most popular Australian Times articles of 2013.

Australian Google users were most interested this year in the deaths of two celebrities and the birth of a future king.

So far on this tour he’s been searched on suspicion of drug-trafficking, fled the stage with food-poisoning, farewelled his trusty tour-van and copped a head-butt from a kamikaze pigeon. Despite perilous events, Australian troubadour Kim Churchill remains upbeat.

Australian Times are giving away two pairs of tickets to see In Vogue - Songs by Madonna at St James Theatre on the 19th December.

To top off a massive year for Australian indie dance trio RÃœFÃœS, they have just headlined two sold out gigs in London.

After a stellar season at the Edinburgh Fringe, critically acclaimed Aussie theatre maker, Stuart Bowden is back in London for the premiere of his solo show She Was Probably Not A Robot.

Set in a shut down psychiatric ward in London, Australian theatre director Chris Hosking's new production explores the stories of its mental health patients. This performance is part of the Shuffle Festival.

The Sunday session is an Aussie tradition worth adhering to at Sunday in the Apartment, where emerging artists take centre stage. For Australia Day 2014 a special Sunday in Australia House event will take place, including a number of special guests.

REVIEW | The life of Albert Namatjira, Australia's most celebrated indigenous artist is presented in an entertaining and moving performance starring Trevor Jamieson and Derik Lynch.

Created by Australian performance company Erth, Dinosaur Zoo is an interactive show inviting audiences to get up close and personal with prehistoric creatures. It is on at Phoenix Theatre, London until 12 January.

Patience, sustenance and a spare 345 minutes are needed to appreciate the power of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Royal Opera House. It stars New Zealand tenor Simon O'Neill, along with Australian soprano Kiandra Howarth.

In addition to supporting English singer Billy Bragg on his European Tour, Kim Churchill will be performing a headline show at Borderline in London on 3 December.

Six paintings printed on aluminium will be on display at an underwater art exhibition on the Great Barrier Reef.

Departing in spectacular style at Australia House, the Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts is on its way, arriving in London May 2014.

INTERVIEW | Following a stunning sold out show at the Barbican earlier this year, Australian singer songwriter Sarah Blasko is back in London for an intimate show at Islington Assembly Hall.

The descendants of celebrated Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira have travelled to London to exhibit their landscape paintings as part of a contemporary watercolour exhibition at Southbank Centre.

In the name of charity the worlds two greatest bingo nights have joined forces to bring you one fabulously debauched night out. Come and let your facial hair down at The Fash-Tache Bingo Bonanza for Movember.

It was Australia’s night at London’s ultimate burlesque event as dancer Bonnie Fox and host Reuben Kaye stole the show.

Following a sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Michael Griffiths is returning to entertain London audiences this December at St James Theatre with his one man cabaret show In Vogue - Songs by Madonna.

The life of Albert Namatjira, one of Australia's most celebrated indigenous artists is brought to life in a special theatrical performance at the Southbank Centre.

If you have a smartphone or expect Santa to put one underneath the Christmas tree for you this year, check out any one of these eights apps perfect for the holidays.

The Rolling Stones will play an outdoor concert at Adelaide Oval as part of their upcoming Australian Tour.

REVIEW | Eat, Pray, Laugh! Barry Humphries Farwell Tour at the London Palladium is probably the furthest thing from a stage version of the best-selling novel Eat, Pray, Love.

INTERVIEW | Two years in the making, John Pilger's controversial new film Utopia reveals a shocking national secret behind the postcard image of the "lucky country". As it premiers in the UK, the award winning documentary filmmaker talks to Australian Times about the devastating inequalities suffered by the Aboriginal community.

Five of Australia’s most talented Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander creative practitioners have arrived in the UK to take part in the British Council’s annual ACCELERATE programme. High Commissioner Mike Rann welcomed them at a special event at the BT Tower.

If you are new to London, things might be a bit weird at first. But the clubbing scene should never confuse you. Go east for the cool kids, go south for the cooler kids and go city centre if you are a rich kid ready to have a good time.

Mammoth Mammoth, a heavy rock band from Melbourne are performing in London tonight at the Islington Academy.

Feathers, sequins, skin and Australia’s own Sharon Davis aka 'Bonnie Fox' will take to the stage in London this month for the World Burlesque Games, London

Almost 83,000 people are backing a Facebook campaign to make Highway to Hell the UK Christmas Number One to celebrate 40 years of AC/DC.

REVIEW | Written by Emma Deakin, and presented by Shaky Isles Theatre, Expectations is a game show where couples compete for life's biggest prize. It is currently playing at the Pleasance Theatre in Islington.

Australian Times have a special reader offer for you to see Expectations, a new play at the Pleasance Theatre by kiwi company, Shaky Isle Theatre.

INTERVIEW | Fiona Foley is raising awareness about the mistreatment, and plight of indigenous people in Australia through her controversial artworks, including Vexed a video presentation exploring the breakdown of traditional Aboriginal marriages, currently on display at EcoCentrix; Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts.

It seems classic Australian art is in vogue at the moment, as another John Glover landscape painting is to be displayed at the Winter Fine Art and Antiques Fair.

Here is our list of five headline grabbing Australians who you look at, and question what the bloody hell were they thinking?