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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. He's returned with an exhibition of his huge, ethereal, stop-you-in-your-tracks paintings and installations at the Geelong Gallery. There's also an explanation of the three faces he painted on the cement silos above nearby Fyansford. The silos have since been demolished, but that's the fate of some street art. Rone in Geelong runs until May 16. See geelonggallery.org.au THE ONE CAFE For coffee and service of the kind urban Victorians have come to expect, make your way to Poco Cafe Ex...

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 are to be believed, quite a lot of noise. Party boats blare music as they cruise past the Botanic Gar...

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 Liberals’ last Warringah MP gets top billing with an estimated value of $2500. Just how great do t...