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Normal text size Very large text size It was hardly the first day Kelly Bayer Rosmarin had imagined when she agreed to take on one of the biggest jobs in Australia, the chief executive position at telecom carrier Optus. The 44-year-old former Commonwealth Bank executive had spent a year in a fast tracked apprenticeship, working under former chief Allen Lew and learning about the telecommunications industry - which she had not worked in before she joined. But after her elevation to CEO was confi...

Normal text size Very large text size It was hardly the first day Kelly Bayer Rosmarin had imagined when she agreed to take on one of the biggest jobs in Australia, the chief executive position at telecom carrier Optus. The 44-year-old former Commonwealth Bank executive had spent a year in a fast tracked apprenticeship, working under former chief Allen Lew and learning about the telecommunications industry - which she had not worked in before she joined. But after her elevation to CEO was confi...

Visionary managers belief in INXS paid off in spades We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss January 21, 2021 — 9.53am Save Normal text size CHRIS MURPHY: 1954 - 2021 Australian music was never lacking in raw talent of sufficient quality to take on the world. What was usually missing was the brilliance of visionary figures with the ceaseless energy to bring the dreams to fruition. There were a few who headed off early overseas and usually st...

From writing a book to recording an album, Barnesy is set to have a prolific year.

Premium Content Subscriber only A decade is a lifetime in both marriage and radio but Jay Shipston and Dave Peters have made it work. They joke theyre either too lazy to find another job or they like what theyre doing. Their listeners, though, have no doubt the latter rings true for radio stalwarts of the Jay and Dave show on Triple M. Because if there was any doubt, there is no way these two blokes would have notched up 10 years together on breakfast radio in Mackay, especially considering...

Styles kept Taylor Swifts surprise lockdown album Folklore to No. 2, with Billie Eilish, AC/DC and US country singer Luke Combs making up the Top 5 albums. Canadian artist The Weeknds Blinding Lights, released at the end of November 2019, spent 11 weeks at No. 1 to become our most popular song of last year. The song has never left the ARIA Top 20 since its release 58 weeks ago. Canadian musician The Weeknd had the year’s biggest single. Picture: Universal Despite being streamed 1.9 bil...

Advertisement It was a year in which virtually no international acts toured, where the money which might have been spent attending gigs of local acts went unspent, where major artists around the world held back releasing new music. And yet, Australian artists still struggled to sell their music to Australians. The release by the recording industry peak body, ARIA, of end-of-year charts for 2020 presents a sobering picture to an industry still unsure who and what will survive the wreckage wrough...

A veteran DJ has been hailed a legend after hosting a socially distant music set from his high rise apartment during Brisbanes lockdown last weekend. Tim Wilde, a renowned party performer in his youth who is now an Uber driver, spun the decks with the help of a Spotify playlist from his 17th storey apartment last Saturday night. A number of his neighbours in Brisbanes inner-north reportedly loved the one hour set, which started at 8pm. Wilde played a host of classics, including tracks from Cold...

Taylor Swift secures a fourth straight week at No.1 with her ninth album “evermore”, which equals the four weeks her eighth set “folklore” (TW-7) achieved in August of 2020. Of the seven No.1 albums that Taylor has had here in Australia, these last two albums are now her equal second longest running chart-toppers, but they are also now her equal longest-consecutive running No.1 albums at four weeks apiece. Her “1989” set (TW-31) did spend nine weeks at No.1 during 2014 and 2015, bu...

“My hope is that people embrace the opportunity and get out and support live music again.”