Paul Donoughue

Social media lights up with striking images from a storm cell that battered Brisbane and South East Queensland, smashing windows, bringing down trees and powerlines and cutting power to thousands of homes and businesses.

The judgement against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for copyright infringement over their song Blurred Lines has brought into focus the merits and pitfalls of copyright law. Listen to these eight songs and rate how similar you think they are.

Meet the phone counsellors on the front line of Australia’s battle against domestic violence.

With the technology reaching a tipping point, several companies are clamouring — sometimes by way of the courts — to create a hologram performance that can be as engaging as a human one.

The move by the review aggregation site to ban people from “review-bombing” films before seeing them comes in the wake of a backlash against Captain Marvel — and particularly its female lead.

From “rap dancing” in the 1980s to Tkay Maidza, here’s how the genre developed in Australia.

How did the Coalition stage an unlikely win over a Labor Party that was favoured to take government? Use our map to walk the Liberals’ path to victory.

Around Australia, many people are standing up in courtrooms to represent themselves, often against an adversary with deep pockets. Could you do it?

It’s a new decade. Let’s reminisce.

It’s a classic Australian example of the protest song, a genre more varied than you might think.

Don’t stand so close to me.

Bluesfest made clear just how long and treacherous the road back to normality will be.

We’ve gone from a 78 made from the faeces of a rare beetle to a bop that lives in the cloud.