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The former student services administrator claimed he was passed over for a promotion because he’s Black.

Rone (Tyrone Wright, above) got to know his home town on a skateboard - the street sport of the street artist. Hes returned with an exhibition of his huge, ethereal, stop-you-in-your-tracks paintings and installations at the Geelong Gallery. Theres also an explanation of the three faces he painted on the cement silos above nearby Fyansford. The silos have since been demolished, but thats the fate of some street art. Rone in Geelong runs until May 16. See geelonggallery.org.au THE ONE CAFE For c...

Governor of New South Yells endures noisy Harbour partygoers Save Normal text size Advertisement It’s only the state’s highest-ranked public post and it comes with a $500,000 pay packet and a heritage-listed pile with billion-dollar views. But there are pitfalls to being the Governor of NSW. There are noise problems around the Bennelong Point landmark and NSW Governor’s residence at Government House. And if sources in the orbit of former judge and NSW Governor Margaret Beazley a...

Tyrone ‘Rone’ Wright is torching chairs, portraits... even staining a McCubbin painting with soot. He jokes that ‘whenever the politics is bad, the graffiti is good’.

Just how much is tuition from former prime minister Tony Abbott worth? Quite a bit, according to the Warringah Liberals. A fundraiser headlined “Winning Back Warringah” – after Abbott lost the former safe seat to independent Zali Steggall, remember – is offering tickets for $50 apiece, or 12 at a discounted price of $200. But the nominated value of some of the prizes is prompting some head scratching among members. A surf lesson and breakfast with the former PM and the Lib...

Share Geelong muralist Rone, like many street artists before him – Banksy, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat – is becoming part of the establishment. This year he has been the subject of a sumptuous coffee table book and in February next year he will have a survey exhibition in his hometown gallery (The show, should have opened on May 30, but was postponed due to Victorias COVID-19 restrictions). The artist is renowned for his large-scale works on and in buildings. Tourists who have follow...

hello. its the top of the hour. it remains a warm and humid day start. and traffic has been kind troublesome as well. lets go ahead and take a look at the day part. its a warm and humid start. 71 is the currents temperatures, many of us in the mid-70s. 88 at lunch and up to a high of 90. and we have thunderstorms in the forecast and have a flash flood watch in effect for baltimore and the surrounding counties. thunderstorms coming our way 12 hours from now. and now to sharon. were ...