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She is venomous, eats her mate after sex and is the epitome of female power — Cate Blanchett is the Australian redback spider.

Australian music producer Flume claims the top spot in the triple j Hottest 100 countdown for 2016, in a year that attracted a record-breaking 2.2 million votes and more Australian artists than ever before.

Flume wins triple j's Hottest 100 countdown with his song Never Be Like You featuring Kai. Relive the countdown with our playlist of the top 10 songs.

The Adelaide Festival has secured veteran rocker Neil Finn for an opening weekend concert in Elder Park during March, but capacity will be limited to just 15,000 people.

When artist Sven Roehrs asked his mother's neighbour, Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, to sit for a portrait, he did not know he would be painting the next Australian of the Year.

The ABC's triple j Hottest 100 has kicked off for 2017, counting down Australians' favourite songs of the past year.

One of Sydney's favourite live music venues — The Sando in Newtown — claims the city's "regulatory climate" has made their business unsustainable.

Hundreds of sculptures transform the foreshore at one of Adelaide's most popular beaches to raise money for the local surf lifesaving club.

Mary Tyler Moore, who helped change the way women were portrayed on TV — from suburban housewife to independent career woman — dies at the age of 80.

Moonlight's sophisticated depiction of conflicted masculinity deserves to beat La La Land for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Emerging Melbourne musician Tash Sultana says her love for music dragged her from drug problems to the top of the Australian music scene.

How do you tune in to triple j's Hottest 100? And what's so special about this year's poll? Find out about all the ins and outs of Australia's favourite music ballot.

A Brisbane film processor is run off his feet trying to keep up with people wanting to develop traditional film prints.

One of the directors of the Oscar-nominated Australian film Tanna, set in Vanuatu and based on a true story, says getting the chance to take his cast of first-time actors to Hollywood's night of nights is a dream come true.

One Sydney Indigenous woman is trying to use the power of song to shape the conversation about which date Australia Day should be celebrated.

Some 200 life-size human figures are submerged 14 metres under the Atlantic Ocean as part of Europe's first underwater museum, which has officially opened to the public in Spain.

One of Sydney's best-known pubs, which has been around for more than a century, is forced to silence local artists performing live music in its courtyard due to a noise complaint from a neighbour.

La La Land scores a record-tying 14 Academy Awards nominations, while Australian film Lion scoops six nods and Aussies including Nicole Kidman and Mel Gibson also enter the Oscars race.

Nominations for the 2017 Oscars will be announced tonight. So who actually makes the call for nominees?

It took 67 days, 12,000 images and a climb to stomach-churning heights, but Steven Pearce finally got the image he was after of Tasmania's eucalyptus regnans.

Australian physicists invent a nano-material that could soon allow smartphones to snap stunning 3D images, bringing Star Wars-style holograms to life.

Gorden Kaye, who played the put-upon cafe owner Rene Artois on the hit 1980s show 'Allo 'Allo!, dies in a British care home.

Star Wars fans are in a tizzy over the newly announced title of the next film in the series, fearing it implies Luke Skywalker will die in episode eight.

Australia's film and television union says it will take a fresh look at safety for the entire industry after a man was shot dead during the filming of a music video for Australian hip hop group Bliss n Eso in Brisbane's CBD.

Sunday night's PJ Harvey show in Melbourne left the crowd in awe, on their feet, charged with the power of a truly transformative show, writes Will Huxley.