Dorky and earnest, aboriginal teen Willie (Rocky McKenzie) proves deep down a dissident when he escapes Catholic boarding school in 1969 Perth, extinguishing the fire and brimstone of Father ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: Some of Australia's leading actors and filmmakers have gone bush to bring the first ...

Taiwan's Matzka brings a fresh sound to his mainland audience. Zou Hong / China Daily With his shoulder-length dreadlocks and sunglasses, Matzka looks like a rock star. But the 28-year-old ...

In the summer of 1977, humans sent two spacecraft ad astra—to the stars. Last summer, the first of those two machines, Voyager 1, crossed beyond the bubble around our sun and into interstellar space, ...

Emma Donovan (front, far right) and The Putbacks will perform on Maui on Saturday. The band burst onto the Australian scene with their 2014 album “Dawn,” a project born of their shared love for ...

‘The Sapphires,” an unlikely salute to ­Motown from Down Under, celebrates the true story of four young ­Aboriginal Australian ­women who toured Vietnam in the late ’60s to entertain U.S. troops. The ...

When he was 10 years old, Peter D. Harper’s family moved from the United Kingdom to Perth, Australia. He developed an interest in the didgeridoo music that he heard indigenous Aboriginal musicians ...

ROSENDALE, N.Y. — Juma Sultan’s Aboriginal Music Society joins Ethiopian band Qwanqwa in a twin bill at the Rosendale Theatre at 408 Main St. on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m. Juma Sultan collaborated ...

Actresses Jessica Mauboy, left, Miranda Tapsell, Shari Sebbens and Deborah Mailman pose during a photo call for The Sapphires at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, ...

CANNES, France (AP) — After the success of "Bridesmaids," actor Chris O'Dowd was mostly getting scripts for mediocre romantic comedies — "bad versions of 'Bridesmaids,'" he says. "I figured I should ...