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The Gold Logie is the top prize in the Australian TV industry.

All that glitters: What Gold Logie history reveals about Australian TV

For over 60 years, the Gold Logie has recognised our best and brightest TV talent, but the prestigious award has had its share of bumps. 

  • Thomas Mitchell

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Actor Annelise Hall starring in the Australian production of Grease, Capital Theatre.

‘An inspiration’: Sydney’s newest Sandy pays tribute to Olivia Newton-John

Grease, the musical Olivia Newton-John made famous, opens for the first time in over a decade at the Capitol Theatre.

  • Helen Pitt
“Dad lifted his head, looked at Bert and nodded. Bert always felt it was a message: ‘Look after my girl for me.’ Which he did.”

‘Bert will always be the love of my life’: Patti Newton

“I’ll never stop thinking about him,” says the 78-year-old entertainer, whose touching pre-show ritual is a nod to her late husband.

  • Robyn Doreian
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Mr Upside: The Killers headline Scott Farquhar’s secret Christmas bash

Atlassian billionaire shrugs off tech sector woes to party with a select group of friends and one of the biggest acts on the planet.

  • Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
A portrait of cricketer Ashton Agar, by his brother William is an entrant in this year’s Archibald Prize.

TV stars and athletes beat out politicians in this year’s Archibald haul

Lisa McCune, Brooke Boney and Dylan Alcott are some of the well-known faces whose portraits have been entered in this year’s Archibalds.

  • Helen Pitt
Muhammad Ali and Bert Newton at the 21st Logie Awards in 1979.

From the Archives, 1979: Ali and Newton’s infamous Logies moment

In 1979, Muhammad Ali was on hand to present Bert Newton with a long-awaited Gold Logie. It was there the world’s most famous man found himself the bemused co-star in one of the most infamous Logies clangers of them all.

  • Brian Courtis
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Archibald entries: Patti Newton by Margaret Dawson, Wendy Sharpe’s ‘Self portrait with ghosts’ and Deborah Cheetham by Vicki Sullivan.

What can we expect from this year’s Archibald Prize?

Entries in this famous prize include a tribute to Brett Whiteley’s winning 1976 painting, a portrait of Patti Newton and a ghostly Wendy Sharpe.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Patti Newton, left, and daughter Lauren lead Bert’s coffin out of St Patrick’s Cathedral at the end of his state funeral on Friday November 12, 2021.

Bert Newton brings stars back together but family steals the show

In a letter from New York, Matthew Newton wrote of an unbroken father-and-son bond underpinned by shared enthusiasms and mutual love.

  • Karl Quinn
Patti and Lauren Newton lead Bert Newton’s casket out of St Patrick’s Cathedral on Friday.

‘More than talent, he was trust’: Fitting farewell for a man we all felt we knew

At Bert Newton’s state funeral on Friday, singers, dancers, radio stars, a prime minister, a premier, comedians and football greats honoured one of Australia’s most enduring television stars.

  • Rob Harris
Bert Newton funeral gif.

Bert Newton funeral as it happened: Australia’s entertainment industry pays tribute to TV icon

The television icon is being farewelled at a state funeral at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne this morning.

  • Karl Quinn, Thomas Mitchell and Rob Harris

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