Adelaide Festival Writer’s Week cancelled; Louise Adler resigns following Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s exclusion from lineup
Adler argued vehemently against the board’s decision, which was revealed last Thursday. Since then, four members of the board have resigned, including the chair, and writers have pulled out en masse. Adler says her count is 180. “In the aftermath of the…
Venezuela stocks skyrocket 130% to record high after U.S. ousts Maduro
A Venezuelan living in Colombia waves a Venezuelan flag and a U.S. flag at Plaza de Bolivar to celebrate after U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. has struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, in Bogota,…
WA Police hunting ‘man with a firearm’ in Pinjarra
WA Police are responding to reports of a man armed with a firearm near Pinjarra. “Significant police resources are being deployed to the area,” a spokeswoman said. “Anyone in the vicinity is urged to follow the instructions of police in the area.” The…
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal shine in adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway
FILM Hamnet ★★★★(M) 126 minutes Germaine Greer was the first writer to set about rehabilitating the reputation of Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway. Her speculative biography, Shakespeare’s Wife (2007), was an eloquently forthright feminist look at a…
Search your name in our database of second-round tertiary offers
Year 12 graduates who missed out on a first-round offer for their preferred university, TAFE or private college course last month are among almost 14,000 people set to receive a second-round offer for tertiary study in Victoria on Tuesday. The Victorian…
SK Hynix to invest $13 billion in new plant amid memory chip shortage
A visitor takes a picture of a model of SK hynix’s high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology during the 2025 World IT Show in Seoul on April 24, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty Images South Korea-based memory maker SK Hynix announced Tuesday it will…
Neuroscientific Biopharmaceuticals soars on stem cell tech results
Adding extra weight to the outcome, these treatments played out in the real world, where advanced disease doesn’t follow a script, rather than in a sanitised lab trial engineered for perfect data. According to the company, that gritty clinical setting…
After years of straightening, natural curls are having a moment
Nicole Kidman was photographed this week leaving Sydney Airport for Nashville, Tennessee. She was all smiles and wearing Chanel, with full-on curly hair. It had been her first Christmas on home soil in Australia since she ended her 19-year marriage to…
Jonas Brothers Guitar Tech Defends Nick Jonas’ Live Playing –
Jonas Brothers’ Guitar Tech Defends Nick Jonas Amid Claims He’s Not Playing Live on Tour January 12, 2026 — A member of the Jonas Brothers’ touring crew is shutting down online skepticism surrounding Nick Jonas and whether he’s actually playing guitar…
Man whose carer was found dead arrested at crash scene after pursuit
A man whose female carer was found dead at his house was involved in an alleged police chase and crash just before his arrest hundreds of kilometres from home. He has been identified as Wael Abdallah Saleem Alfar. Family of his 46-year-old carer had…