Interview
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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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
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
‘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
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
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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