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Sam Neill has died at 78, and Sydney is where he took his final bow
Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park and The Piano, has died in Sydney at 78, just months after announcing he was free of the blood cancer he had fought for years.


MONA is opening a Bangkok outpost, and Hobart's weird little art empire just went global
Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art has spent almost two decades being the strangest, most confronting museum in the country. Now it is franchising itself to Thailand. MONA has signed a fifteen year deal with Asset World Corporation, a major Thai property developer, to build MONA Bangkok on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. The plan is for it to open in 2029. Under the arrangement, MONA handles the parts that made it famous in the first place: collection, curation, exhibitio


Sam Neill has died at 78, and Sydney is where he took his final bow
Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park and The Piano, has died in Sydney at 78, just months after announcing he was free of the blood cancer he had fought for years.


NRL just signed a $5.3 billion deal that leaves the AFL in the dust
The NRL signed a record $5.3 billion broadcast deal with Nine, Foxtel and Sky NZ, well ahead of the AFL, and broadcasters will expect plenty back for it.


Emmy nominations 2026 are in and The Pitt just made history
The 2026 Emmy nominations are in, with The Pitt leading on 25 nods and Hacks setting a comedy record. Mariska Hargitay hosts the ceremony in September.


The World Cup quarterfinals are stacked this weekend, here's who to watch
The World Cup 2026 quarterfinals continue this weekend with Spain vs Belgium, Norway vs England and Argentina vs Switzerland. Here's who to watch now.


A Canadian government just used Claude to hack itself before anyone else could
The Government of Alberta used Claude to scan 466 million lines of code in 20 hours, a rare example of AI doing real infrastructure work, not just hype.


The Emmy snubs are in, and Jeremy Allen White didn't make the cut
Jeremy Allen White was shut out of the 2026 Emmy nominations despite two wins for The Bear. Here are the biggest snubs and surprises from this year's list.


Bondi Beach has an ice rink and a ferris wheel right now, and it's peak Sydney chaos
Bondi Beach has an ice rink and a Ferris wheel until 19 July as part of Bondi Festival, turning the beach into an unlikely winter playground right now.


Albanese says China's missile test in the Pacific is destabilising the region
China tested a long range missile in the Pacific this week and Albanese called it destabilising. Here's what happened and why it matters for the region.


Telstra's outage has a 'secondary issue' now, and compensation talk has started
A day after Telstra's nationwide outage, a secondary fault is still causing issues and the telco is now facing real questions about compensation owed.


Brisbane's winter events calendar just got seriously stacked
Brisbane's winter lineup for July 2026 is genuinely packed, from Lions footy to Brisbane Open House and Night Feast. Here's what's worth planning around.


An accused killer cop's mother just walked out of court on bail
Coleen Lamarre, mother of accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon, has been granted bail over claims she tried to influence a witness in his trial.


Xbox just gutted its own studios to admit the streaming bet didn't pay off
Microsoft is cutting 3,200 Xbox jobs and spinning out four studios including Ninja Theory, admitting its Game Pass subscription bet hasn't paid off yet.


A third fire in six weeks just tore through Melbourne's Richmond strip
A third firebombing in six weeks tore through ten shops on Richmond's Victoria Street, as Yarra's mayor calls the tobacco turf war a cancer on Melbourne.


Ronaldo's last World Cup ended with Spain's 91st minute sucker punch
Cristiano Ronaldo's international career closed with a 1-0 loss to Spain, giving the internet one last chance to relitigate two decades of GOAT debates.


Karl Stefanovic finally breaks his silence on getting axed from Today, and it's messy
Karl Stefanovic broke his silence on getting axed from Today in an emotional Piers Morgan interview, following backlash over his Tommy Robinson podcast.


Spotify's new Podcast Clips feature wants you to stop screenshotting timestamps
Spotify's new Podcast Clips feature lets listeners trim and share moments from any show, tackling podcast discovery the same way TikTok clips do for music.


Bluey now speaks Yolngu Matha, and it landed right on NAIDOC Week
Five Bluey episodes have now been translated into Yolŋu Matha for NAIDOC Week, streaming on ABC iview and screening live at the Garma Festival in August.


NAIDOC Week 2026 kicked off with '50 Years of Deadly', marking half a century of the celebration
NAIDOC Week only exists in its current form because Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people took control of it themselves, and that is exactly what this year's theme is built to remember. This year's theme, 50 Years of Deadly, marks half a century since an entirely Indigenous led NAIDOC committee was formed, the moment the week stopped being something done for community and became something run by it. Fifty years on, that shift is still the whole point of the week, not j
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