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Some of AC/DC's original members talk about the band’s Sydney origins. Featuring Mark Evans, Noel Taylor, Rob Bailey and Tony Currenti. Video by Tom Compagnoni.
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The forgotten Sydney of AC/DC

Some of AC/DC's original members talk about the band’s Sydney origins. Featuring Mark Evans, Noel Taylor, Rob Bailey and Tony Currenti. Video by Tom Compagnoni.

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Sussan Ley and Elon Musk on a Mars landscape.

Sussan Ley adds Elon from Mars to her spacey view of Australian history

The deputy Liberal leader added a letter to her name in a quest for lifelong excitement. Now she’s added the space adventures of Musk to her out-there view of Australia Day.

  • Tony Wright
Crowds gather at the Mona Lisa.

Mona Lisa will have her own room under a major renovation of the Louvre

The most visited museum in the world is also the most overcrowded, and then there are problems in the roof and outdated facilities.

  • Sylvie Corbet
A visitor walks past a gas chamber and crematorium, where someone has left a rose, at Auschwitz.

Eighty years after Auschwitz, survey reveals shocking lack of Holocaust awareness

Even in Germany, the Claims Conference survey found one in nine young people were unaware of the Holocaust, and a quarter could not name a concentration camp.

  • Rob Harris
Madison Fazio and Jonathan King

Their ancestor ruled Australia. Sex and servitude split the family

Australia’s third governor had children by his wife and mistress. Now their descendants meet for the first time to heal old wounds.

  • Sue Williams
Staff aboard the cruise that departed from Melbourne.

Cruise crew dress up in Ku Klux Klan-like costumes for Christmas event

A spokeswoman for P&O Cruises Australia said the crew meant to dress up as snow cones, and it was “just stupid” to think they acted with any malice.

  • Lachlan Abbott
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Most of the state is set to sizzle in the coming days as a heatwave sweeps over NSW.

Twenty facts about Australian history that everyone should know

These are the achievements and failures we should never forget.

  • Richard Glover
Unity Mitford.

Hitler’s ‘English girlfriend’ says she was bullied by Goebbels because she didn’t like Mussolini

The revelation follows the discovery of secret diaries from British socialite Unity Mitford.

  • Stephen Del
The new Acropolis museum has empty plinths waiting for the Elgin Marbles.

Robots and replicas: Is the British Museum going to lose its Marbles?

Robot sculptors creating near-perfect replicas of the Parthenon Marbles may provide the key to the long-running dispute over the ownership of one of the ancient world’s most contested treasures.

  • Simon de Bruxelles
An Egyptian mug from the second century B.C. at the Tampa Museum of Art that was found to have traces of hallucinogenic plants.

Psychedelic traces found on mug from ancient Egypt

Egyptians may have used hallucinogenic substances as part of a fertility rite, researchers say.

  • Alexander Nazaryan

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