Paul Hogan has had enough. After a six-year multi-million dollar fight with the taxman, which began with him branding the ATO 'miserable bastards' and led to a brief travel ban, the Crocodile Dundee star is ready to settle.

For 25 years Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton have had a large say over the audience numbers present in cinemas across the country.

Business leaders are more famed for financially propping up cultural institutions rather than contributing to their works of art, but one project aims to change all that with the launch of a new corporate-inspired exhibition in Melbourne.

High-profile doctor and gay rights advocate Kerryn Phelps has hit out at Miranda Devine for linking lesbian parenting to the London riots in a Sunday column published in News Limited tabloids.

Rugby league powerbroker Phil Gould is never one to take a backward step when facing up to the game's establishment, but the man they call 'Gus' may be licking his wounds this week after taking a couple of wild swings at long-time opponent David Gallop over a mysteriously leaked drawing.

Forget the long hair, tight black jeans and cold beer, it was all about suits, ties and orange juice at Melbourne's inner-city rock mecca The Tote yesterday morning, as Victorian premier Ted Baillieu took to the club's famous sticky carpet to release a long-awaited report on the city's live music scene.

A-League soccer clubs are the rock kicker hobby horse du jour at the moment. But for Perth mining entrepreneur Tony Sage, it's all about publicly showing off his team's colours.

Is it acceptable to portray the son of God as a drag queen? Or the Virgin Mary as an ape?

It's the question that's got the arts community abuzz: Who will replace Edmund Capon as director of the Art Gallery of NSW?

Ross Davies, the former bishop of the Murray who resigned late last year just before appearing before a church tribunal, says his new life as a Catholic is “relaxing”.