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‘Why aren’t you being cancelled?’ Claudia Karvan reveals her problematic past roles

The veteran Australian actor has seen a lot of social change over her decades-long career. There’s a big one at the heart of her latest role.

  • John Bailey

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British musician Jacob Collier.

How ‘Gen Z’s Mozart’ almost dismissed Herbie Hancock’s email as a joke

Jacob Collier was a teenager making songs in his bedroom – until his videos caught the attention of the world’s biggest musicians.

  • Michael Lallo
Rhoda Roberts.

The untold story of Frank Roberts, Australia’s own Rocky Balboa

Rhoda Roberts celebrates the story of her cousin Frank, the first Indigenous man to compete for Australia at the Olympics.

  • John Bailey
Brad Pitt at the European premiere of F1: The Movie this week.

‘Brad Pitt is annoyingly good at everything’: In F1, Damson Idris is just trying to keep up

The makers of Top Gun tapped A-lister Brad Pitt and rising star Damson Idris to make the greatest Formula One racing movie of all time.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Logie winner Hazem Shammas will play Macbeth for Bell Shakespeare’s 2023 season.

‘We all have the capacity to be monsters’: Hazem Shammas on playing Coriolanus

Macbeth has nothing on one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known and most monstrous subjects.

  • John Bailey
Justine Hyde, new CEO of Abbotsford Convent.

Is this Melbourne’s only CEO job with sheep grazing outside the office?

Justine Hyde has an ambitious plan to put Abbotsford Convent on the map, setting her sights on transforming it into more than just a haven for locals.

  • John Bailey
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Warren Ellis.

The film Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis tried to pull

Ellis Park, the documentary about Ellis’ life and work (and his Indonesian animal sanctuary), is something he had no intention or desire to make.

  • Michael Dwyer
Actor Robyn Malcolm

‘We’re roadkill’: How this Kiwi actor turned middle-age rage into her best work yet

The Kiwi actor has never been stronger or in more demand – and she’s definitely not ready for the La-Z-Boy yet.

  • Louise Rugendyke
Commander Chris Hadfield at a spacewalk training session in 2012.

This astronaut says space is not the lonely place we see in science fiction

Don’t believe everything you see in films, says the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield.

  • John Bailey
Foromer Top Gear presenter James May, who is bringing his live show, Explorers: The Age of Discovery, to Australia in August.

Maverick explorer and cheese buff James May’s curiosity remains in top gear

The former Top Gear presenter’s escapades include travel, toy construction, machine disassembly and kitchen craft.

  • Michael Dwyer

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