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Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Songs countdown. 

Triple J Hottest 100 Australian songs: Powderfinger and Midnight Oil make first appearances

After months of voting, Triple J will announce the Hottest 100 Australian songs, with listening parties taking place around the country.

  • Thomas Mitchell

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Lynne for the win? After 33 years playing Irene on Home and Away, Lynne McGranger is the hot favourite to win the TV Week Gold Logie.

Who will win the Gold Logie? And why will it be Lynne McGranger?

Recent history suggests that the Gold Logie winner typically comes from the network that broadcasts the Logies, which is excellent news for Channel Seven and Lynne McGranger.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Christian O’Connell hosts the breakfast program on Gold, which has topped the ratings for the first time in 33 years.

Small bump up for Kyle and Jackie O as Melbourne crowns new ratings winner

While Kiis FM’s star hosts are still struggling, there was a glimmer of good news – and even better news for Kiis stablemate Gold.

  • Michael Lallo
2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham is still No. 1, despite the station’s overall losses.

Smooth FM rolls 2GB to take No.1 Sydney radio spot as ABC struggles

Listeners are continuing to turn away from ABC mornings, but there was some good news for the national broadcaster.

  • Michael Lallo
Antoinette Lattouf addresses the media outside Federal Court in February.

Legal bid against Herald and Age in Lattouf case fails

The Federal Court heard a bid by a group of pro-Israel lobbyists to have The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age punished for contempt of court.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
ABC Chair Kim Williams during an interview with AFR media and marketing reporter Sam Buckingham Jones at the ABC Headquarters in Ultimo, Sydney on June 10, 2024. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Frequent flyer Kim Williams racks up $50,000 travel budget

The ABC chair has been vocal and active since landing the top job last year. And that means plenty of taxpayer-funded travel.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman, Stephen Brook and Gemma Grant
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The books we’re excited to read in the second half of 2025.

Thirty books we’ll be talking about for the rest of 2025

Clear your shelves. Here’s the fiction and non-fiction you can look forward to reading for the rest of the year.

  • Melanie Kembrey
Singer, songwriter, podcaster Ben Lee.

‘It’s easy to get complacent’: Ben Lee’s bold plan to save Aussie music

The singer believes the youth radio station should be doing more to promote local music, and it begins with overhauling the Hottest 100.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Heather Ewart is presenting her final episodes of the popular ABC series Back Roads.

Heather Ewart won’t use the word retire, but there’s a reason she’s leaving Back Roads

Two cancer diagnoses and injuries from a car crash in May have contributed to the popular ABC presenter’s decision.

  • Bridget McManus
Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal

Antisemitism envoy singles out ABC reporting in stoush over ‘manipulated narratives’

The clash comes a day after Jillian Segal presented her blueprint to crack down on anti-Jewish hate, which she says is growing in part due to media reporting.

  • Olivia Ireland

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