When Sydney company Bondi Wash applied to trademark its name in the US, it was prevented from doing so because of the similarity to international fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch's existing rights over the name.

After becoming the first playwright to win the Victorian Prize for Literature, Darwin writer Mary Anne Butler has returned to the Top End for the world premiere of her new play.

The death of Australia's most prominent Indigenous music artist Dr G Yunupingu has left a "deafening silence", one Indigenous academic says.

Almost half of video game players in Australia are female, but very few are employed to make them. Brooke Maggs says flexible workplaces, and perhaps even hiring quotas, could fix the gender imbalance.

The members of California rock band Linkin Park say the suicide of frontman Chester Bennington leaves them broken-hearted but recall it was Bennington's demons that made fans fall in love with the group.