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Cairns artist David Hudson recalls Island of Dr Moreau experience with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer

David Hudson has led an extraordinary life, but his stint as a half-human, half-bison hybrid alongside the Godfather star and Val Kilmer while filming The Island of Dr Moreau remains his strangest claim to fame.

Paul Mescal and Jodie Comer lead winners list at Olivier Awards

Paul Mescal and Jodie Comer score prizes at London's Olivier Awards for their first West End stage roles.

Van life gives couple freedom to ditch the daily grind and hit the open road, funding their travels with farm work

Quitting your 9-5 office job to live in a van and travel around Australia is a pipe dream for many people. But Kobie Notting and her partner Vaughn Turner made it happen and haven't looked back.

WA's great – and less-than-great – gold plots unearthed as price hits record high

As long as gold has been mined people have tried to steal it. As the precious metal hits a record price, let's take a look back at some of the mad, bad and downright dumb ways crooks have tried to pocket the "miner's privilege".

A political warrior who walked tall in two worlds — how Yunupingu opened Australia's eyes

From a land rights "radical" to a steely elder who had the ear of successive prime ministers, the late northeast Arnhem Land leader, Yunupingu, leaves a powerful legacy.

AFL Round-Up: Geelong in trouble, Adelaide's Showdown special and Melbourne set a standard against Sydney

Reigning premiers Geelong are the only winless team left in the AFL, as round three delivers another Showdown to remember and a Demons performance that caught the eye. We digest the week that was.

Ukrainian ballerina who fled after Russia's invasion stars in Swan Lake in Budapest

Ganna Muromtseva left her pointe shoes behind when she fled Ukraine after Russia's invasion. Now, she is on stage again performing to audiences in Hungary.

Growing calls for student HECS-HELP loan indexation to be abolished as inflation sends debts soaring

A growing chorus of university graduates is calling for an overhaul of the HECS-HELP debt system, as loan amounts balloon due to high inflation.

After the Fall

A mother and son in suburban Sydney, almost 100 lives on the line and a perilous rescue mission on the other side of the world. Can they pull it off?

House prices rise for the first time in 11 months in March, while chronic rental shortage continues

Property prices are climbing nationally for the first time since interest rates started rising, according to CoreLogic, but rents are still surging in major capital cities as a federal report finds 46,500 households are experiencing homelessness.