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Pop culture moments that defined 2024.

The pop culture moments that defined 2024

From a pygmy hippo with anger issues to an Olympic breakdancer with dancing issues, these pop culture stories captured our fascination this year.  

  • Thomas Mitchell

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Sophie Molineux’s Melbourne Renegades are in the WBBL final.

This star cricketer couldn’t play for Australia for more than 850 days. On Sunday, she can become a champion again

Melbourne Renegades WBBL star Sophie Molineux has had plenty of career highlights, but it’s been far from plain sailing lately as injuries struck her down.

  • Scott Spits
Katy Perry, left, and Australian fashion designer Katie Jane Taylor, who sells clothing under the brand name Katie Perry.

Katy Perry wins appeal in trademark fight with Sydney fashion designer

A court ruled an Australian loungewear designer’s “Katie Perry” brand name should be cancelled, in a decision the small businesswoman said was “heartbreaking”.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
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The school-leaver up at 4am, and a Katy Perry dancer turned Cup strapper: Racing’s pre-dawn heroes

While the big days of the Melbourne Cup carnival attract the height of fashion and society’s elite, there are also pre-dawn heroes who keep horse racing’s heart beating.

  • Rob Harris
Katy Perry performing at the AFL grand final.

Major sporting events in ‘arms race’ to secure top singers

In an effort to attract new fans, sporting events invest heavily in securing musical acts.

  • Angus Delaney
Katy Perry performing at the AFL grand final at the MCG.

Katy Perry won the grand final but can she sell a dress?

For most Australian labels, it takes more than a celebrity coathanger to survive.

  • Damien Woolnough
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Who’s afraid of the working class?

Readers write about the tax and funding advantages the already well-off get, namely, in private school subsidies and negative gearing and CGT tax credits.

The September Club outside the MCG. Few are chosen.

Swans’ Sweet Caroline lament, the exclusive party and Katy Perry

Melbourne’s elite quickly swapped the MCG after the grand final for the private surrounds of the September Club to celebrate and commiserate. CBD was there.

  • Stephen Brook

AFL grand final is a celebration like no other

A reader writes that the AFL Grand Final provides an opportunity to celebrate “the sensory solidarity that the pure enjoyment of sport”.

Katy Perry at the AFL grand final press conference on Thursday.

Katy Perry prays special Aussie guest helps make grand final show a winner

A “favourite Australian artist” will perform I Kissed a Girl with the pop superstar – and one name is on everyone’s lips.

  • Meg Watson

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