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6 days ago | 
abc.net.au | Anna Kelsey-Sugg |Rachel Rasker |Katherine Smyrk
Welcome to ICYMI, where we recap the pop culture and entertainment news you might have missed over the past week. Sean 'Diddy' Combs is edging closer to his US federal sex-trafficking trial as the case closes in on jury selection. 150 potential jurors were brought into a Manhattan courthouse on Monday to begin the vetting process that will whittle the group down to 12 people.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Anna Kelsey-Sugg |Bhakthi Puvanenthiran
Creative Australia's shock decision to drop its own selection to one of the world's most prestigious cultural events, the Venice Biennale, has been met with severe backlash including a spate of resignations. Artists and cultural leaders have strongly criticised Creative Australia, the federal government's arts funding and advisory body, for rescinding its 2026 Biennale invitation to Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Anna Kelsey-Sugg |Nat Tencic
When I took myself off social media a year ago, it was with one aim in mind: to spend less time on my phone. Moving the apps off my phone's home screen and logging out of them as a barrier to logging back in again had proved fruitless. I just got great at working around these hacks. Photos I didn't need to see and narky comments I didn't need to hear were sucking up too many precious hours in my day. So I quit. I made sure I told everyone around me what I'd done and that I was now better than them.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Nicola Heath |Mawunyo Gbogbo |Jared Richards |Katherine Smyrk |Anna Kelsey-Sugg
Few Australian books have been devoured and re-read by young people quite like those of John Marsden, who died this week, aged 74. For many of us, his work was a revelation: reading can be this good?!Marsden wrote more than 40 books in his lifetime, so narrowing the list to cherry-pick our favourites wasn't easy, but here are his books that most moved ABC Arts reviewers.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Mawunyo Gbogbo |Anna Kelsey-Sugg
Welcome to ICYMI, where we recap the pop culture and entertainment news you might have missed over the past few days. Let us get you caught up. Singer Paula Abdul has settled her year-long legal battle with former co-worker and British television producer Nigel Lythgoe in a California court. "This has been a long and hard-fought personal battle," Abdul said in a concluding statement.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Anna Kelsey-Sugg
Architect Jeremy McLeod's latest work is a house designed to make you squirm. "Were you aware that we built the biggest houses in the world in the middle of a housing crisis?" he asks as he guides me through Home Truth, his mammoth installation at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Home Truth, winner of the NGV's 2024 Architecture Commission Design Competition, takes the form of a house mid-build and it stands at a whopping 236 square metres.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Anna Kelsey-Sugg
It can be tempting to think children are immune from distressing world news and aren't picking up on adults' fear, sadness or anger about things like war or global politics. But children "absolutely" know more than adults often give them credit for, says Sahra O'Doherty, a clinical psychologist and the president of the Australian Association of Psychologists. "We have to acknowledge that our kids, from a very, very young age, are sponges," she tells ABC Radio National's Life Matters.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Anna Kelsey-Sugg |Erica Vowles
After briefly dating a man in 2015, Di McDonald ended the relationship. Then he began arriving uninvited and unannounced at her home. "I'd ask him to leave me alone, [then] he'd come to my work," she tells ABC Radio National's Life Matters. For three years the man stalked Ms McDonald, and he was eventually charged and jailed. But it took five years of police involvement, interventions and court trials to get to that. Ms McDonald says she was often left unsupported to navigate complex legal systems.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Anna Kelsey-Sugg
There's a typical starting point when separating couples come to see Brisbane-based clinical psychologist Kylie Layton: Everyone gets permission to feel. "One of the first things that people always need help with is permission to have the feelings that they have … whatever they are," Ms Layton says.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Anna Kelsey-Sugg |Damien Carrick
German journalist Martin Bernklau made a shocking discovery earlier this year when he typed his name into Microsoft's AI tool, Copilot. "I read there that I was a 54-year-old child molester," he tells ABC Radio National's Law Report. The AI information said Bernklau had confessed to the crime and was remorseful. But that's not all. Microsoft's AI tool also described him as an escapee from a psychiatric institution, a con-man who preyed on widowers, a drug dealer and a violent criminal.
