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Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst.

I can’t really thrash the drums any more: Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst

The Midnight Oil warrior faces the fight of his life as he deals with stage 3 cancer, armed, as ever, with songs.

  • Michael Dwyer

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Izzard’s new show is something of a greatest hits, spanning 35 years of stand-up.

You couldn’t come out as trans 40 years ago and be ... negative: Suzy Izzard

The comedian, actor, political activist and marathon runner believes the future won’t be as bad as it might seem right now.

  • John Bailey

If Musk was broke, he’d just be another asshole with bad ideas: Cory Doctorow

The tech activist’s new book examines how tech monopolies innovated ways to disregard, abuse, and suck us dry – and offers us solution to the “enshittification” of the internet.

  • Kurt Johnson

Church frontman Steve Kilbey’s biggest regret? ‘Being a prick’

Despite conceding he’s been an “arrogant sod”, the frontman for one of Australia’s best-loved bands is peaking again.

  • Michael Dwyer
M.I.A. pictured at Stella McCartney’s womenswear show at Paris Fashion Week in March 2024.

Cancelled, criticised and complicated as ever, M.I.A. returns to the stage

The pop provocateur returns to Australia, tin foil hat and all.

  • Robert Moran

People who want to be offended are always going to be offended: Harry Enfield

The British comedian has dropped a few of his old characters from his repertoire, but says his thing has always been “mischief, not malice”.

  • Lenny Ann Low
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Lindy Morrison, The Go-Betweens’ drummer between 1980 and 1989.

‘It makes me shudder … there were just no women’: Drummer Lindy Morrison

The radical Go-Between, whose new musical project marks the first time she’s recorded her own songs, is still shocked at the lack of women she sees at reunion gigs of older bands.

  • Michael Dwyer
Author Adele Zeynep Walton

After the death of her sister, this author wrote a diatribe against social media

UK journalist Adele Zeynep Walton’s call for a new approach to the digital world is passionate, but lacks proper interrogation.

  • Flynn Benson
Polish guitar prodigy Marcin tours Australia for the first time in October 2025.

Is this hit guitarist faking it? No, but he’s so good you might think so

He upsets the purists, but this 24-year-old guitar prodigy has millions of fans – including Madonna.

  • Michael Lallo

‘It was funny to be so... woke and be a supposed Nazi’: Tom Ballard

The comedian and TV presenter’s new play calls into question the very nature of comedy.

  • John Bailey

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