Rolf Harris made an odd choice for a final encore, considering. “This was the first verse that he wrote,” the iconic Australian entertainer said by way of introduction to Lead Belly’s Goodnight Irene
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Summer Bay star to take on god
Hollywood beckons Home and Away heartthrob Stephen Peacocke to the silver screen. If success is the best revenge, then Hollywood-bound Stephen Peacocke has all the ammunition he needs, with a role in a Summer blockbuster.
Rihanna hits back at Brown
Rihanna has seemingly hit out at Chris Brown, saying love isn’t “for kids”. The singer confirmed over the weekend that the on/off couple have called time on their relationship
Switch off the TV babes for some real news
OPINION: This is an essay by Australian journalist Geoffrey Barker.
Getting dirty in Australia
Mike Rowe knows the question everyone wants to ask about his show Dirty Jobs Down Under.
Making songs from bird encounters
Spirit Bird, the seventh album from Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd, who plays Wellington tonight, was inspired by a unique encounter in the middle of nowhere with a red-tailed black cockatoo. “It’s very powerful that song, Spirit Bird,” Rudd explains.
Pearce takes a bad turn
A little more than a decade ago, Guy Pearce had broken through in Hollywood but was struggling to deal with a relentless workload and his new celebrity. He was known around the world for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, L.A.
Amphlett refused to play by the rules
If the Australian music industry is not exactly female-friendly today, when Chrissy Amphlett began it was quite deliberately hostile and patronising.
‘Australia is most comfortably racist’
Australia has been described as “comfortably racist” by a reporter from the popular American satirical current affairs program The Daily Show. John Oliver, a long-serving presenter with the series, described the country as a “a coastal paradise surrounding a rocky hell” after filming here last week, reports Mumbrella website
Actor stalked by razor wielding fan
Officers arrested a woman for stalking after she wielded an electric razor while approaching Australian actor Hugh Jackman at a New York City gym, police said. Katherine Thurston, 47, went into the gym where Jackman was working out early on Saturday morning (local time), and after a brief encounter with the 44-year-old actor, she fled and was arrested a few blocks away, a New York police spokeswoman said