Dr Peter Ellyard will be delivering a keynote address during this year's Golden Plains festival at Meredith

Optimistic Future Making, with Dr Peter Ellyard

An interview with futurist and author Dr Peter Ellyard, who will be delivering a keynote address during this year’s Golden Plains festival at Meredith.

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Review: The King Of Limbs by Radiohead

Despite the hyperbole, there should be no real sense of revolution or paradigm shifting surrounding the release of this, the eighth Radiohead album.

The first pictures from North Queensland this morning confirmed a horrifying reality for newspaper editors and disaster junkies nationwide.

Australian Media Wakes to Devastation After Cyclone Yasi

The Australian media woke this morning to a scene of utter devastation as Cyclone Yasi tore across the North Queensland coast.

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Mr Squiggle: A Tribute

We pay tribute to children’s television legend Mr Squiggle and his creator Norman Hetherington, who passed away this week aged 89.

Helen Mirren brings some class to 'wielding machine gun'

Review: RED

The idea of superannuated super-spies is a great one. Pity the filmmakers decided it wasn’t an idea worth more than a passing thought.

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Scenes We’d Like To See In The Upcoming Freddie Mercury Biopic

With Sacha Baron Cohen confirmed to play the role of Freddie Mercury in an upcoming, Peter Morgan penned biopic, we suggest a number of scenes that warrant inclusion in the script.

Russian rock musician and dissident Yuri Shevchuk

In Communist Russia, Rock Star Speaks For YOU!!

A Russian rock legend dared to question Vladimir Putin on live, state-controlled television, and awoke the Russian new media in the process.

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Review: High Violet by The National

After a month of solid listening, The National’s High Violet has revealed itself as a likely Album of the Year.

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Review: Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever

Santo Cilauro has finally landed his dream role, hosting a nightly football show during the World Cup.