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The Art Show and Arts in 30 at Radio National. Photos by me. All opinions my own.
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Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform

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King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs
An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.
futurism.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Kendrick Lamar is as good live as you'd imagine. Stadium crowds are a younger man's game though.
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
For the final Arts in 30 (news version) we spoke to Sarah Hanson-Young about the local content quotas passing the parliament and arts priorities for next year. And Gideon Haigh takes aim at proposed changes at the State Library of Victoria.
Sarah Hanson-Young on local content quotas and ABC funding plus proposed changes at the State Library of Victoria - ABC listen
Last week, the federal government passed legislation that will require video streaming services with more than 1 million Australian subscribers to invest 10 percent of their Australian expenditure or ...
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Every ad now
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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And there's a whole article you can read after the headline, too! Here it is.

Sharing links to writing you appreciate really does make a huge difference even for publications of our size.
Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious
Is it really "mindblowing" that people are skeptical of software that consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do?
www.pcgamer.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
On this week's Weekender, we take on Pluribus and Wicked: For Good. Plus Sharon Van Etten's Australian tour is a good excuse to revisit the latest album, and Last Samurai Standing is a fun version of the Battle Royale template.
Weekender: Breaking consensus on Pluribus and Wicked For Good manages to land the broomstick - ABC listen
Everyone in the world has come together in a single voice: shared perspective, shared understanding, shared goals - harmony.  That's both the plot of Pluribus and a rough summary of how critics have ...
www.abc.net.au
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
On the Arts in 30 Weekender, we're joined by Jason di Rosso from RN's Screen Show to take a look at the week in cinema, with If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Two Prosecutors and Running Man. And new music releases from Rosalia and Mountain Goats
Weekender: Running Man and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You take on the perils of parenthood and Rosalia makes a play for album of the year - ABC listen
Rose Byrne puts in an award-winning performance as a woman under pressure in the excellent If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. Glen Powell takes on an all-powerful media company in a dystopian future for the ...
www.abc.net.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This week on the show we looked at the proposed local content quotas with Julianne Schultz and Guy Morrow. And Sarah L'Estrange takes us into the Booker prize winning novel Flesh by David Szalay.
Local content quotas announced for streaming platforms and David Szalay wins the Booker - ABC listen
The Federal Government has announced plans for a local content quota for streaming video services in Australia. Any service with more than one million subscribers will be required to spend a percentag...
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.”

Worth reading Steve Cannane’s analysis today.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Starting to think about my 2025 mixtape - track highlights from this year.
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A daily bird I've enjoyed seeing (or as often as I remember to actually post)
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Hiromi + PUBLIQuartet was one of the best gigs I've seen this year. Virtuosic playing with absolutely compelling performances. Brilliant way to close out the jazz festival.
October 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Latest episode of Weekender takes on Wayward (yay?), After the Hunt (boo!), and I recommend the latest show at Heide and the new album by The Antlers.
Weekender: Wayward maintains its direction, on the hunt against After the Hunt, and two great art exhibitions. - ABC listen
Featuring troubled children in a small American town, an outsider who can sense that something is wrong, and hints of the supernatural, Wayward seems influenced by the work of Stephen King, but Ce arg...
www.abc.net.au
October 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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“This inquiry has… exposed what lies beneath the tip of the governance failure iceberg – overpaid and arrogant management and their largesse, opaque, unaccountable, and top-down decision-making, and governance bodies stacked with corporate appointees.” satpa.pe/XogpEAK
Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector
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October 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This seems extremely embarrassing re: the state of Aus politics
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I’m not a fancy big city lawyuh, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how copyright works.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
An early edition of Arts in 30 Weekender, with Jason Di Rosso joining us for a chat about One Battle After Another and Spinal Tap II
Weekender: One Battle After Another and Spinal Tap II tell very different stories of the world - ABC listen
With two major films launching this week, The Screen Show's Jason Di Rosso pops in to share his thoughts. One of Hollywood's major auteurs, Paul Thomas Anderson, brings us his second adaptation of Th...
www.abc.net.au
September 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Very glad to be able to speak to ABC RN's Arts in 30 about the closure of Meanjin.
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Arts In 30 - ABC listen
Your weekly dose of news and interviews from ABC Radio National’s arts and culture team.
www.abc.net.au
September 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Second episode of the Weekender is up - featuring guest host Claire Nichols. We look at the huge success of The Studio, share book tips (The Names and What We Can Know), music tips (Springsteen and Wisp) and pay tribute to Robert Redford.
Weekender: The Studio sweeps the Emmy's, the lingering power of The Names, and a Springsteen rarity revealed - ABC listen
Claire Nichols from The Book Show joins the team to talk through the biggest name in comedy at the moment: The Studio. With a record-breaking 13 Emmy's at the 2025 awards, we share our takes on what's...
www.abc.net.au
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Ah, yes, what a shock, who could have seen this coming, it's not like it has been a long standing issue with facial recognition systems since inception or anything...
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM