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  • Hollow Knight to Donkey Kong: Our favourite video games of 2025

    • ABC Arts

    • Topic:Video Games

    A young woman with red hair a white striped top and overalls looks off to the side of the screen, video game screenshot

    There are games to suit everyone, and overwhelmingly Australians are a game-playing nation. Here are some of the most important titles released this year.

  • Artists on the ice: The program helping creatives experience Antarctica

    Topic:Visual Art

    Leila Jeffreys sits side on to the camera and holds her camera to her eye.
  • The 14 books that knocked our critics' socks off in 2025

    Topic:Books

    A composite image showing three authors and their book covers
  • 'We were just crying': Kendrick Lamar serenades 9yo at Spilt Milk

    Topic:Music

    Kendrick holds hit hat and microphone, looking down standing on stage.
  • How the right books can help build remote Indigenous students' reading skills

    Topic:Education

    A male teacher with a cap on sits at a desk with an Aboriginal girl who is reading in a classroom.
  • How Sydney Sweeney transformed herself to play a boxer

    Topic:Movies

    Actor Sydney Sweeney wearing a silver dress.
  • Patti Smith’s Horses, the timeless debut that rewrote rock, turns 50

    Topic:Music

    Black & white photo of Patti Smith in open shirt, jacket draped over left shoulder, leering out from cover of debut album Horses
  • French game Clair Obscur breaks records with Game of the Year 2025 win — as it happened

    Topic:Video Games

    A pixelated background with various video game characters leaping in the air.
  • An Aussie doco about a Scottish porridge competition is winning hearts

    Topic:Movies

    A film still of Adam Kiani, 25, a Pakistani British man with a moustache, smiling outside a community hall, holding a trophy.
  • 'Reality is fiction': New exhibition explores truth in the AI age

    Topic:Visual Art

    A screen showing an avatar of Kim Kardashian with her hair pulled back, dressed in black

TV & Movies

  • Pulp Fiction, The Mask actor Peter Greene dies aged 60

    • Topic:Actor

    • Topic:Movies

    Peter Greene in a security uniform pointing.

    Peter Greene, a character actor best known for his role as the iconic villain, Zed in Pulp Fiction, has died.

  • Hard Quiz: It's the season of giving so I'm gifting you a chance at redemption

    Topic:Comedy

    Show image for Hard Quiz: Tom Gleeson in a navy blue suit in a studio.
  • How Emma Thompson made history with Sense and Sensibility

    Topic:Romance Movies

    Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson in 1800s-style dress, wearing bonnets and looking downcast.
  • Netflix was set to buy Warner Bros Discovery, then came the torpedo

    Topic:Movies

    Jared Kushner looks on during a swearing-in ceremony.
  • After 40 years of plot twists and drama, Neighbours wraps up for the last time — again

    Topic:Television

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  • 'Bring it home in a blaze of glory': Neighbours wraps up, again

    Topic:Television

    Susan Kennedy with a sign outside the front of her Ramsay Street home saying 'fight the freeway'
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Arts

  • 'I did start tearing up': $400k Matildas portrait unveiled

    • Topic:Visual Art

    • Topic:Sport

    A row of Matildas walks towards the camera in uniform with a black background.

    The 23-minute video portrait of the Matildas 2023 World Cup squad cost $400,000, in what the National Portrait Gallery describes as its most ambitious commission ever.

  • The terror and beauty of being Australia's official war artist

    Topic:War

    Wendy Sharpe stands in khaki outfit with a big bag smiling, in front of a group of east timorese children who are smiling
  • Brisbane studio brings Bluey home with new game

    Topic:Video Games

    Opening frame showing hand drawn Bluey and Bingo on a mountain
  • Water leak at the Louvre damages hundreds of works

    Topic:Libraries, Museums and Galleries

    Visitors queue outside the Louvre museum on a sunny day.
  • After the Rain reflects on Indigenous art's legacy while looking to future

    Topic:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art

    Tony Albert, an Aboriginal man in his early 40s, poses in a gallery, arms folded, in front of Vincent Namatjira's portraits.
  • Frank Gehry, world-renowned architect behind Guggenheim Bilbao, dies aged 96

    Topic:Architecture

    An older man with white hair smiles in the sun in front of a large, rippled steel building.
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Books

  • Bendigo Writers Festival in damage control, report recommends one-year break

    • By Zain Nabi

    • ABC Central Victoria

    A large, old building in central Bendigo in Victoria

    Council officers recommend a one-year hiatus for the Bendigo Writers Festival to work on repairing the reputation of the event.

  • Aboriginal healers seek to share power of 'open hands' with Western doctors

    Topic:Indigenous Culture

    A seated Aboriginal woman holds a microphone and gestures with her free hand.
  • Eight books that knocked our critics' socks off in November

    Topic:Books

    A composite image of eight books on a blue background, including a book featuring a portrait of Margaret Atwood.
  • Actor-turned-author's new book reimagines 'queer, sexy Greek myths'

    Topic:Books

    A young person with short dark hair, wearing a white t-shirt, holding their hands behind their head
  • Quiz: Do you remember who won the Booker just a week ago?

    Topic:Books

    A man with short dark grey hair, in a suit and tie, smiling with his nose scrunched up, with a trophy in the background
  • The 'spine-chilling moment' that inspired Heather Rose's latest novel

    Topic:Books

    A middle-aged white woman with cropped red-brown hair, wearing a black jacket, leaning against a tree
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Music

  • The budding musicians 'staying proud' through Indigenous rap music

    • ABC South East NSW

    • Topic:Indigenous Music

    Two teenage girls sitting in a room, with musical equipment behind them.

    With sounds recorded in a makeshift studio, this group of high school students produced music about First Nations culture.

  • Perth queer nightclub celebrates 50 years of dancing and difference

    Topic:LGBTQIA+

    A man smiling and pointing his fingers and arms ahead of him with swirls of light around him.
  • 2024 Eurovision winner returns trophy over Israel's participation

    Topic:World

    Nemo stands on stage after winning the trophy in 2024.
  • Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision 2026 over Israeli participation

    Topic:Music

    The two performers who represented Iceland standing in silver suits holding the Icelandic flag.
  • Fans face mayhem trying to get into Brisbane Lady Gaga concert

    Topic:Events

    crowd of people outside Lang Park
  • The 50 best albums of 2025: Your ultimate year-end music guide

    Topic:Music

    composite image featuring Tame Impala, Bumpy, Clipse, Little Simz, Paul Kelly, Lily Allen before a wall of album covers
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Pop Culture

  • Nicole Kidman to co-chair Met Gala with Beyoncé and Venus Williams

    • Topic:Fashion

    • Topic:Popular Culture

    Nicole Kidman wearing a strapless black dress with a short haircut with blonde on top and black on the bottom

    The museum also announced a gala host committee, chaired by designer Anthony Vaccarello and filmmaker Zoë Kravitz.

  • Taliban detains men for Peaky Blinders-inspired costumes

    Topic:Popular Culture

    A graphic shows five young men in 1920s clothing next to a still of Cillian Murphy smoking and Persian writing
  • Trump makes history hosting Kennedy Center Honors — here's how we got here

    Topic:Explainer

    A close-up shot of Donald Trump speaking in front of a dark background while wearing a black tuxedo.
  • 'Mismatch' between Gen Z and Beijing captured on China's dating show

    Topic:Reality TV

    13 years on, former contestants of the popular dating show If You Are the One married and settled in Melbourne.
  • Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards

    Topic:Aboriginal Language

    A man and young boy (right) hold coloured cards, the boy holds a green one to the camera and looks at the lens.
  • Nintendo gave away millions of games for free. The risk paid off

    Topic:Video Games

    A woman's hands holding a Nintendo Wii Remote controller
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