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Before the big venues and festivals, the Hopetoun Hotel was a place to watch future Australian music royalty perform for the price of a few beers.

Willie Nelson is 93 and has released 18 albums in the last decade. When exactly does a rock star call it a day?

Western Gu Gu Yalanji Elder Graham Brady and his nephew Jungaji come from a long lineage of First Nations artists in Far North Queenslad who share their people's stories and struggles with the world through song and art.

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The hidden cost of our waste

Nightlife's resident demographer suggests net overseas migration should sit around 200,000 with the emphasis shifted from temporary to permanent migrants. 

A prolific writer who produced more than forty novels during his lifetime, Wells was fascinated by the ways he imagined science would shape the future. 

Former ABC presenter Simon Marnie was presenting Nightlife when the planes hit the World Trade Centre towers in New York.

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Paul Barry has spent a good deal of his life charting the slippery shenanigans of corporate crooks, including Alan Bond. 

Germany has been making headlines this week for two very different reasons: a major breakthrough for the far right in regional elections, and a significant milestone for its emerging space industry.

There have been calls from across the political spectrum, for One Nation to take down a video which repeatedly calls Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie a 'traitor' for giving evidence in court against accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith in a defamation trial.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended his undeclared honorary membership of a golf club that promised a taxpayer funded grant, claiming he wasn't aware of it. Liberal frontbencher and former SAS veteran, Andrew Hastie has called Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce "lying cowards", demanding they remove a One Nation cartoon that portrayed him as a traitor.

There's a growing industry of politicians from all persuasions and levels of achievement to write books and give retrospective interviews in order to shape how history will regard them. Is it a noble urge, to ensure history's record is true, or is it fear that if their account isn't recorded and published, then critical views about their political lives and careers will become their legacy?

Former banker and financial commentator Satyajit Das spoke to ABC Business Daily about the potential for another major global financial crisis — a 'Bondmageddon'. Has the world become too dependent on cheap money, and will the AI boom become another fault line in the financial system?

The UK has just taken its first step into the Robotaxi era, with Wayve's self-driving cars now available to book through the Uber app; but there'll still be a licensed human driver in the front to take over if needed. 

Nightlife looks at the life of Benjamin, the last known Tasmanian Tiger who died in captivity this week in 1936, marking the extinction of this beautiful animal. 

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