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Cillian Murphy lives with his wife and children in Ireland, happy to stay away from the spotlight.

‘A completely unique freak experience’: Stepping back into Peaky Blinders is never easy for Cillian Murphy

The acclaimed Irish actor rarely revisits a role, but there’s something about Irish gangster Tommy Shelby that he can’t shake.

  • Jacqueline Cutler

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As a result of the ongoing conflict the  Gaza War Cemetery has suffered extensive damage.

Australia pledges to restore Anzac war graves bulldozed during war in Gaza

Satellite imagery has revealed parts of a Commonwealth cemetery containing Anzac burials had been bulldozed during Israeli military operations over the past two years.

  • Rob Harris
Suburban street, Cannon Hill, Brisbane.

My suburb is gentrifying quickly, but the shopping centre is still a horror show

Our feature suburb in this week’s Life in the ’burbs series has a strong community spirit. But while its ritziness rises, its shopping plaza remains a 1970s time capsule.

  • Nick Dent
Video of the Carol of the Bells flash mob in Paris has gone viral.

The moment of pure, unexpected joy that helped silence the ‘age of grievance’

How a flash mob in the City of Light helped Tony Wright rediscover the transformative power of music, however fleeting.

  • Tony Wright
Rachel Griffiths in The Idea of Australia on SBS.

‘Why have we forgotten this?’: Story of gay bushrangers revealed in documentary

Captain Moonlite – and some of Australia’s biggest conflicts – feature in two very different portraits of Australia hosted by Rachel Griffiths.

  • Michael Lallo
Ukrainian training camp in England

The secret camp where Australia and Ukraine train for war

Sergey used to be a dance instructor. Now, at a secret location, he’s learning how to survive on the battlefields of Ukraine. And a group of Australians are helping him do it.

  • David Crowe
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The F/A-18 Hornet under the Aperture in the Middle East Gallery, seen during a visit to view construction work of Anzac Hall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Wednesday 2 July

From Black Hawks to $2 pool noodles: Inside the new Anzac Hall

Engineering and architectural nous is behind the controversial expansion of the Australian War Memorial, which will include helicopters, armoured vehicles and an F/A-18A Hornet.

  • Julie Power
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Sending it by sea snail mail

When it absolutely, positively has to be there within the decade.

The Anzacs of Leighterton

The year the Anzacs came: the little-known story one English village still tells its children

Leighterton still relied on horse-drawn carts when a few hundred young Australians arrived in 1918, weaving their way through the skies above and into the hearts of the villagers below.

  • Rob Harris
The soldiers' vote: men of the 44th Battalion cast their ballots; conscription referendum, Belgium, December 8, 1917?

Why so many Diggers voted ‘no’ to conscription in WWI

Australians, including many thousands of Diggers fighting in Europe, voted against conscription during the Great War. It was a blow to then-prime minister Billy Hughes.

  • Oliver Sinclair