The biggest production ever staged by the Australian Ballet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, will premiere in Melbourne tomorrow.

Chris Hopewell was in New York when he caught what is now world-famous vision of the second plane flying into the World Trade Centre. Sixteen years later, he believes he's still processing what he saw that day.

These Australian performers are no longer shunted to the back row of dance classes and have qualified to compete and perform at the World Latin Cup in the United States.

The National Portrait Gallery says it will not remove a portrait on permanent display by an Archibald prize finalist now accused of murder.

Perth-based writer and academic Josephine Wilson wins the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her novel Extinctions — becoming just the fifth West Australian to claim the gong.