ABC supremo Mark Scott will have been smiling over his cornflakes this morning after the national broadcaster was a surprise winner at last night's Logie awards.

A fortnight ago you didn't know who they were, now their Anglo-Irish haircuts are everywhere. So who's riding the barely-legal boy band behemoth that is One Direction?

It's flack against flack as PR legend John Connolly sues Libs polling king Mark Textor over an errant 140 characters.

David Walsh hasn't just changed how the rest of the country sees Tasmania with his sex and death museum, he's altered the very mindset of the Apple Isle itself.

When it comes to Australian music, there aren't many who match the make-you-or-break-you power of Richard Kingsmill.

Never mind his five-foot-five frame, Andrew Denton is a colossus in TV land. He's returning to our screens soon to host a new show but it's his work off camera that really counts.

Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton are poles apart in the celebrity stakes, but together they are the power couple behind the resurgence of the Sydney Theatre Company.

Tony Ellwood has achieved the near impossible: he's helped transform Brisbane from a philistine wasteland into a thriving cultural hub.

With her gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, re-opening today after a stunning $53 million makeover, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor's star is burning brighter than almost anyone else in the Australian arts world.

Lyndon Terracini is embarking on a revolution to make a night out at the opera fashionable again, starting with his $12.5 million outdoor extravaganza: La traviata on Sydney Harbour.