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Australian rock legends Midnight Oil have never felt "fresher, nastier, sweeter" as they announce their first world tour in two decades, with lead singer Peter Garrett declaring it feels incredible "walking back into the room".

There's a certain level of "terror" that gnaws at a filmmaker who dares to create a sequel to a cult hit, as Trainspotting 2 director Danny Boyle discovered.

For the past six months I have refused to watch any film or TV show that features violence against women, writes Laura Hartnell. Women are more than just pieces of flesh to be destroyed.

As the Adelaide Festival Centre undergoes a major upgrade, more than four decades after it first opened, an economic study paints a bright picture of its performance and its value to South Australians.

The path of US singer-songwriter Ryan Adams has taken many unexpected turns and that is a testimony to the role music plays in his life, writes Mark Bannerman.

Hollywood actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher tells a US Senate committee about the children his anti-trafficking organisation has rescued, saying "I've seen things no person should ever see".

Larry Buttrose was hired to write the story of Saroo Brierley, the Indian boy whose life journey inspired the Hollywood film Lion.

The greyhound racing industry in New South Wales will be made to pay for a tough new integrity commission, under a new plan to stamp out animal cruelty in the sport.

Think sport and art don't mix? The artists behind a PIAF show described as "a large-scale public artwork that culminates in a huge party" in Fremantle want you to think again as they celebrate women in football.

YouTube and Disney cut ties with influential YouTube star PewDiePie after he posted several videos that were deemed anti-Semitic, including one where he paid Indians $5 to hold up signs reading "Death to all Jews".

Last year children spent an average of 12 hours a week online, compared to 10.5 hours spent in front of the TV, according to a survey of Australian kids aged six to 13.

Thirteen young Sydneysiders facing issues including homelessness and substance abuse join Mission Australia's Sounds of the Street program to shake off their demons and record their own album titled Mess.

Australia's iconic penguin-protecting dog Oddball, who inspired a movie of the same name, has died at the age of 15.

Seventy-five years after the Japanese bombed the Top End, a new play examines the stories of female and immigrant civilians and survivors.

Hardcore Guns N' Roses fans come out in droves to see the rock 'n' roll heroes of their youth together on stage again.

Glam rock legends Guns N' Roses got off to a rough start at last night's MCG concert after the Melbourne crowd was greeted as "Sydney".

America will remain strong so long as its leader keeps challenging others to resist his creepy, crushing handshake, writes Ben Pobjie.

Since the mid 1980s Danish architect Jan Gehl has been helping Melbourne to "turn this miserable scene into one of the most likeable cities in the world".

A lifelong obsession with Catholicism is one of the main themes in Martin Scorsese's latest film, as he continues what he calls a search for the spiritual human condition.

The stories of Donald Trump, Alexander Hamilton and Lin Manuel Miranda intertwine more than you would think, writes Sara James.

From your local barista to the neighbour who brings in your bin every week, take the opportunity on February 14 to honour all the love in your life, writes Deirdre Fidge.

Protesters, a sea turtle and the migrant crisis in Europe are all featured in this year's World Press Photo competition, but none were more impactful than the explosive Photo of the Year: a gun-wielding Turkish policeman standing over the body of Russia's ambassador.

A Melbourne boy's piano that can be played inside a pocket earns him Australia's top student inventor's prize.

When Melbourne man Peter Dietze found a photo in the attic, he had no idea it would link him to Indian film royalty, take him around the world and lead to an exhibition at ACMI.

Adele may have dominated the Grammys, but even she bowed down to Beyonce, declaring she could not accept the Album of the Year award over her idol "Queen Bey".