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5 post-apocalypse movies to watch after Mad Max: Fury Road

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So, you’ve just watched Creating the Apocalypse - In Conversation with George Miller and re-watched Mad Max: Fury Road, and now you’re left hankering for more gas-guzzling carnage. Here are 5 post-apocalyptic movies that will keep those cravings at bay.

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5 Sydney Opera House near misses (in the movies)

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From killer sea creatures to crashing UFOs, the Sydney Opera House has been threatened in the most imaginative and unexpected ways. Here are just a few of our close calls.

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Opera House posters: Hidden gems

The Sydney Opera House has a lasting legacy of working with Australian artists to colourfully express the variety of performances under the sails.

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A collection of five posters on a white wall.

A career in sails: Leonie Bell

Leonie Bell started her career at the Sydney Opera House as a chef-apprentice for Bennelong Restaurant when she was 15 years old. Three years later she was in prime position to experience Sydney's first-ever, world-famous New Year’s Eve fireworks show. Now part of the Front of House team 45 years later, Leonie shares a kitchen secret or two what it was like working in the lead up to that faithful night in 1976.

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Spare a thought for the birds of Circular Quay

What happens to the native birds of urban Sydney when the entire city goes into hiding? We ask aviary experts how the ibises and seagulls of Circular Quay hold up when the humans disappear.

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Sydney's seal of approval

The much-loved resident of the Opera House steps has been given a voice.

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The story of the missing Attenborough Opera House film

Made, lost, then uncovered half a century later. This is the story of controversial film 'Autopsy on a Dream'.

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Remembering Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

The world has lost a towering symbol of humanity, stoicism and grace with the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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An octopus’ garden underneath the Opera House

Discover the sea creatures that dwell beneath the harbour in our modular artificial reef along the Sydney Opera House sea wall.

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A brown octopus.

How Mexico, Iran and China shaped Utzon’s Opera House

In April 2018, the Utzon Center presented Horisont: an evocative exhibition in celebration of Jørn Utzon AC and the poetic, humane layers of his life’s work coloured by his immersive travel studies of foreign landscapes, people and cultures.

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A man sat on the floor moving structural objects around.
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