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Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and Boy Swallows Universe lead 2025 Aacta award nominations

Netflix adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel lands 22 nominations, the most in Aacta history, while Williams’ Melbourne-made biopic sets new record for film with 16 nominations

The Guardian - AU

Why News Corp’s realestate.com.au can put fees ‘up and up and up’, according to ex-CEO

Simon Baker says REA Group’s property portal is viewed ‘jealously’ by others around the world because the home-sellers pay the bills

The Guardian - AU

'The Mentalist' star Simon Baker admits drinking and driving in Australia

Australian actor and director Simon Baker, best known for his role as Patrick Jane in the CBS drama series “The Mentalist,” has avoided a conviction after pleading guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol near his rural home

The Independent UK

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The charge star crime-fighting actor didn't see coming

Actor Simon Baker has avoided a conviction after appearing in a country town court over a drink-driving charge, complicated by a global tech outage.

AAP

The Mentalist actor Baker admits to drink-driving

Lawyers for actor Simon Baker have appeared in a northern NSW court to admit the star was caught driving under the influence of alcohol.

AAP

The Devil Wears Prada is getting a sequel — here’s where the cast are now, from Anne Hathaway to Stanley Tucci

Only two things could make Miranda Priestly smile: Tom Ford in 2001 — and a sequel to the Noughties classic

Evening Standard

'A lot of chrome': Kurri nostalgia festival rocks on for 20th anniversary

Keeping alive the rock, fashion and cars of the '50s and '60s.

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Indigenous folks "rarely make headlines"

An "unrecognizable" Simon Baker and director Ivan Sen spoke to Salon about addressing justice for First Australians

Salon

Boy Swallows Universe review – Netflix’s Trent Dalton adaptation is one of a kind

This seven-part series based on the bestseller is impressive, following a young boy who must navigate 1980s Brisbane’s criminal world

The Guardian - AU

From dystopian drama to heart-rending documentary: the 10 best Australian films of 2023

The punk horror of Talk to Me, the beauty of Shayda and the heartbreak of Man on Earth – it has been a cracker year

The Guardian - AU

"We need to laugh" at Native dysfunction

Cody Lightning costar of 1998's "Smoke Signals" tells Salon about his mockumentary film that pokes at that legacy

Salon

Limbo review – Simon Baker is transcendent in another beautiful film from Ivan Sen

The cast are uniformly excellent in the auteur’s latest outback noir, with his star playing a tough, sorrowful detective investigating the murder of an Indigenous girl 20 years before

The Guardian - AU

‘Career best’: Simon Baker stars in Ivan Sen’s outback film noir Limbo

Simon Baker has come a long way from The Mentalist, starring in local productions including Ivan Sen's lates, Limbo, about a cold case murder

The New Daily

Limbo review – hardbitten outback noir with a compassionate heart

Simon Baker plays a ruined cop investigating a cold-case murder in this tough, sandblasted thriller that coolly lays out the racism and discrimination the Indigenous population face

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Stop work notice issued for Canberra worksite after excavation pit collapses, damaging nearby properties

A stop work notice has been issued for the worksite in Dickson, after an excavation pit collapsed overnight, damaging nearby properties.

The New Daily

Blaze uses powerful imagery to relate this harrowing tale of a young girl’s journey

Steeped in Del Kathryn Barton’s trippy aesthetic, Blaze follows a young girl who retreats into fantasy after witnessing a violent laneway attack.

The Guardian - AU

Del Kathryn Barton: ‘I was totally unprepared for how much the story would re-trigger me’

The Archibald-winning artist’s debut feature film Blaze is informed by a trauma she experienced as a child. Directing and cowriting it hasn’t come easy

ABC News

Pastoralists and traditional owners meet NT environment minister over water security fears

As fears over water security and aquifer mining grow amid a push for NT development, residents demand to be included in decisions that they say impacts their future.

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What do you think you want to watch? More than half a million said SBS

Mentalist star Simon Baker helped the return of the SBS ancestry series Who Do You Think You Are? attract a sizeable audience.

The Guardian - AU

‘I just had this feeling that I belonged’: Justin Hodges and other famous Australians explore their family history

For 13 years, SBS series Who Do You Think You Are? has helped high-profile Australians make surprising ancestral discoveries. For two of this year’s participants, the experience has been not just surprising and emotional, but an invaluable gift for their loved ones.

France 24

'Love Songs': Curator Simon Baker assembles intimate photo collection in Paris

An exhibition about love feels like a radical prospect in an ever-more cynical world. Yet Simon Baker, director of the Paris-based Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), tells us that curating a collection of photos that fully express the complexity, the pain and the sheer diversity of the emotion was…

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