Kelly Burke

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Kelly Burke

The federal government says it is continuing to work on a crackdown on dynamic pricing, “drip pricing” and hidden fees after prices for even the cheapest tickets for Lady Gaga’s Sydney and Melbourne concerts more than quadrupled soon after going on general sale on Thursday. “There should be no hidden costs that suddenly appear at the end of a transaction and the government is taking action on this,” the arts minister, Tony Burke, told Guardian Australia.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Kelly Burke

The embattled head of Creative Australia has been served with two letters of complaint collectively written by staff, and a third signed by more than 600 Australian literary figures.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Kelly Burke

To everyone except fans of the teen dramaEuphoria, Jacob Elordi’s star seemed to explode from nowhere two years ago. In 2023, Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn revealed to global audiences the breadth of the young Queenslander’s range – a tormented and controlling Elvis in one vehicle, a charmingly selfish young British aristocrat in the other. They also certified him as a bona fide celebrity and sex symbol – the kind that can inspire lookalike contests.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Kelly Burke

The City of Perth is under increasing pressure to drop its plans to replace one of the city’s most beloved public artworks with a 7-metre tall effigy of an astronaut, which as been derided as a piece of “factory-produced space junk”. Until four years ago, Ore Obelisk, affectionately known as The Kebab by the people of Perth, stood in the heritage-listed Stirling Gardens in the heart of the city.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Kelly Burke

Richard Roxburgh would like to take this opportunity to apologise to audiences about to watch The Correspondent: “There is no escape from my face. For the entire sentence of the movie.”The audience’s “sentence” lasts just under two hours – but for the film’s subject, Australian war correspondent Peter Greste, his sentence was seven years in an Egyptian jail.