Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci says the only novelty sprung on actress Maria Schneider in the film Last Tango in Paris was the butter — not the simulated rape, which he says was written into the script.
Demonstrators dressed as sausages storm the AACTA Awards red carpet, chanting "end the sausage party" in a protest against gender inequality in the film and television industry.
In a remarkable coincidence, former astronaut Buzz Aldrin is being cared for by Dr David Bowie in a New Zealand hospital after being evacuated from the South Pole.
A farmer who lost nearly all his crops in the floods that hit a wide part of inland NSW this year uses photos of the devastation in a fundraising calendar.
An American artist builds a two-storey creative play space made up of 56,000 metres of packing tape inside a south-east Queensland gallery in the hopes of attracting thousands of visitors over the summer holidays.
Revelations of sexual abuse in the making of Last Tango in Paris give the film 'the air of a snuff piece'. Film scholars must reassess the work – there is no place for revering artistic achievement over human suffering.
One hundred years after she breathed life into the iconic Gumnut Babies, the work of one of Australia's best-loved authors May Gibbs is celebrated at the State Library of NSW in Sydney.
A recently unearthed video interview with Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci from 2013 has renewed interest and outrage over what happened to actress Maria Schneider on set during the infamous butter rape scene
Aboriginal families in Western Australia's north are finding ways to reclaim a sacred image that sparked rumours of Arab voyages and aliens during the early days of British exploration — the large, looming Wandjina.
For the first time, internationally acclaimed UK free jazz pianist and composer Keith Tippett is undertaking a musical residency in Australia, which will culminate in a one-off performance in Perth.
Two women providing in-demand hairdressing services in far north Queensland take a 1,600km road trip every six weeks, working in halls, beer gardens and by the side of the road.
Central Australia's vast stretches of outback roads are known for their red dirt and the occasional roo. But another manmade spectacle is becoming just as common.