Entertainment & Culture

A debauched Irish wake, a three-hour French play about a royal wedding dress and British electro-pop band Hot Chip were some of the best of the festival.

The National Film and Sound Archive has released 4K restorations of the 1960s film series Life in Australia, commissioned by the Department of Immigration to attract new migrants to regional Australia.

Faint ochre outlines of hands thought to be at least 67,800 years old are the oldest rock art yet discovered. Archaeologists say the discovery of the Indonesian cave art backs up estimates of when humans first reached Australia.

As one of Australia's most renowned authors faces child exploitation material charges, the town where one of his children's books was turned into a motion picture is grappling with the news.

Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has taken out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to apologise for past behaviour, saying he had an undiagnosed brain injury and bipolar disorder.

The soccer superstar tells broadcasters at the World Economic Forum that "children are allowed to make mistakes" in his first public comments since his son's allegations went public.