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Donna Malec, Tim Cudini and Ena Peli are hoping a petition will help bring AC/DC back to Boulder 50 years after the legendary band’s performance at Boulder Town Hall.

AC/DC petition Petition aiming to bring AC/DC back to Boulder

A grassroots campaign is calling for support to bring legendary rock band AC/DC back to Boulder 50 years after their last local performance.

Tegan Guthrie

Gaypalani Wanambi has won Australia's most prestigious Aboriginal art award. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

ArtsTrash to treasure: road signs artwork wins top gong

Emerging Indigenous artist Gaypalani Wanambi has turned rusting road signs into an award-winning artwork inspired by an ancestral story.

Callum Godde

Beauty retailer Mecca expects 50,000 customers through the doors of its Melbourne store each week. (Con Chronis/AAP PHOTOS)

EntertainmentBricks and mortar thrive as beauty retailer expands

The expansion of a major beauty retailer's flagship is in line with trends of specialty stores moving into physical retail at the expense of department stores.

William Ton

newsGrim warning to Netflix star after crash

Outback Wrangler Matt Wright was given an ominous warning after his co-star was killed in a helicopter crash, a court has heard.

Zizi Averill

Rebel Wilson’s lawyers on Friday sought more time before the matter is next called up in court. Instagram

NEWSRebel Wilson faces new legal threat

Aussie star Rebel Wilson is facing a fresh legal threat following separate allegations she undermined attempts to release her film “The Deb”.

Clareese Packer

The Naked Gun is in cinemas on August 21.

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The Naked Gun is just bloody excellent dumb fun

No joke but The Naked Gun may be the funniest 85 minutes you’ll spend in a cinema this year. You’d be a fool to wait for it to land on streaming.

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Maritime City came first. Albany Chamber of Commerce and Industry Timeless Albany Photography Competition 2026. Lex Porebski

TIMELESS ALBANYPorebski takes triple win in 2026 ACCI photo competition

A photo of Albany’s stunning landscape captured in the golden rays of sunrise has won an annual photography competition and will grace the front of the city’s 2026 business directory.

Melissa Sheil

Police have raided bookstores and searched roadside vendors to confiscate banned literature. (EPA PHOTO)

EntertainmentIndian officials in Kashmir ban eminent writers' books

Indian authorities have banned 25 books in Kashmir, saying they promoted a "false narrative".

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Freakier Friday stars Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Movie ReviewsFreakier Friday: Lohan’s return is freakier but still funny

If you watch one legacy sequel this week, for the love of comedy make sure it’s Freakier Friday and not Happy Gilmore 2.

Ben O'Shea

Mel Gibson's The Resurrection of the Christ will be a follow-up to 2004's The Passion of the Christ. (AP PHOTO)

MoviesMel Gibson's Passion of the Christ sequel to be split

Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ sequel will be split into two parts and released in cinemas just 40 days apart.

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Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton leaving a LA nightclub in November 2006.

EntertainmentThe rise, fall and comebacks of infamous 2000s party girls

Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears were the convergence of a mid-2000s celebrity culture that was merciless against young women. But they survived.

Wenlei Ma

Guy Sebastian said he will, in fact, miss The Voice when it airs on Sunday.

MusicAussie star on The Voice exit, hints at next TV role

Guy Sebastian on leaving The Voice to focus on his newly released album and men’s fragrance inspired by his dad.

Kellie Balaam

Leanne Stojmenov performing in The Australian Ballet's Cinderella.

BalletWA Ballet secures its next chapter

Leanne Stojmenov has been announced as WA Ballet’s new artistic director in a full circle moment for the Perth-raised dance talent.

Tanya MacNaughton

Liam and Noel Gallagher's performance at a 2009 concert in Scotland was picked up on seismic charts. (AP PHOTO)

MusicOasis gig the most ground-shaking, seismic data shows

Oasis beat out the Red Hot Chili Peppers to perform the most ground-shaking concert in Scotland in the past 20 years, according to seismologists.

Neil Pooran

Australian rock legend Peter Garrett says training artificial intelligence on music without artists’ consent is a ‘massive breach of copyright’. Dean Sewell / NewsWire

UPDATEDBig call as Aussie artists sound AI alarm

The opposition’s top numbers man has given a sobering assessment of Australia’s ability to protect content makers from data-hungry artificial intelligence.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer and Jessica Wang

Carleen Eades with her piece Mary's Rock, part of an exhibition featuring 10 Indigenous artists at Vancouver Arts Centre.

Rock artEades finds family and spirit in love for the big picture

Carleen Eades is the thread which weaves together the paintings, sculptures and Noongar mixed media which combine for the Vancouver Arts Centre’s latest exhibition, which opens on August 8.

Claire Middleton

West Australian Music chief executive Owen Whittle warned if AI was given a free pass to widespread theft of music libraries, Australia’s future of music would be in jeopardy.

Federal Politics‘Nail in the coffin’: Musicians warn AI exemptions tone deaf

WA’s peak lobby group for musicians has called on the government to strengthen copyright protections to stop tech goliaths wanting to mine music content to feed their AI platforms.

Caitlyn Rintoul