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Scarlett Johansson was one of many stars to strut down the red carpet at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

Arson, dissidents and jabs at Trump: The biggest moments from the 78th Cannes Film Festival

From power outages to lobster-stealing seagulls, here are the best, weirdest and most notable moments from La Croisette this year.

  • Stephanie Bunbury

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Gabriel Shipton at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, February 2025.

How Julian Assange’s brother and a crypto artist raised $74m to free him

Gabriel Shipton and the cyber artist Pak joined forces to create an NFT artwork that played a major role in securing the WikiLeaks founder’s release.

  • Karl Quinn
Never Have I Ever crackles with spiky repartee.

Set around a drinking game, this play pushes friendship to its limit

In a new play by Deborah Frances-White – host of The Guilty Feminist podcast – four friends find their relationships strained after a confronting evening.

  • Sonia Nair, Cameron Woodhead, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Andrew Fuhrmann, Jessica Nicholas and Will Cox
Jennifer Robinson at Melbourne restaurant Farmer’s Daughters.

The international lawyer who specialises in breaking the silence

Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson has been at the heart of battles over press freedom and gender violence. She is sure of one thing: change is needed.

  • Cassidy Knowlton
Tomas Kantor and Emily Havea are among five actors channelling the WikiLeaks founder in Truth.

What’s it like being Julian Assange? These actors are finding out

They might not look anything like him, but five actors get “in the guy’s brain” in a daring new play called Truth. So will he turn up to see the results?

  • John Bailey
Bali Nine member Matthew Norman

Calling time on the remaining Bali Nine members

The remaining five members of the Bali Nine have returned to Australia, but nobody is the wiser about the deal struck to secure their release.

  • The Herald's View
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Fitzroy pool

How people power, John Clarke and Julian Assange saved Fitzroy Pool

Thirty years ago, a Herculean community effort led by an unlikely band of campaigners stopped the site from being turned into a block of flats.

  • Rachael Dexter
Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed by Indonesia in April, 2015.

Time to come home for the Bali Nine, left doing hard time in Indonesia

Hope grows for remaining Bali Nine prisoners to return to Australia to serve their sentences.

  • The Herald's View
John Shipton, father of Julian Assange.

Julian Assange’s dad thanks Vladimir Putin for his ‘support’

John Shipton is in Moscow doing the rounds of Russian media to coincide with an international summit.

  • Rob Harris
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, delivers a speech beside his wife Stella Assange at the European council in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.

‘Let us stop gagging … and killing each other’: Assange breaks his silence

The 53-year-old WikiLeaks founder has spoken publicly for the first time since being freed from a UK prison after pleading guilty to US charges.

  • Rob Harris

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