>Known for their anarchic live shows, TISM (short for This Is Serious Mum) trod the boards at the iconic Australian venue in mid-April for two performances celebrating the 30th anniversary of their breakout third album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons.

>A Sydney Opera House spokesperson confirmed to the ABC that during TISM's performance on Friday, April 10: "Some damage occurred to a number of seats and sections of timber flooring in the Concert Hall." 

>Additionally, the report observed "crowd surfing and uncontrolled audience interaction" as well as "liquids [including wine] spilled across seating areas" resulting in stains, breakages and misalignment to multiple rows.

>Following 30th anniversary performances at the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne's PICA (Port Melbourne Industrial Centre for the Arts) earlier this month, TISM are taking their rebellious show on the road once again.

>Billed as "TSIM, the No Mistakes tour" (yes, the deliberate typo is another sly joke), it marks the group's first full-scale national tour in more than 30 years.

>The group will hit Adelaide in July, Darwin in August, then Brisbane, Canberra, Perth and back-to-back Melbourne and Sydney dates in October.

Source: ABC - TISM fined for $18,000 in damage to Sydney Opera House ahead of tour

With Eurovision 2026 behind us, it's time to begin considering who we'll send off to Bulgaria in 2027.

We here at OpenAussie have always thought that Australia is a shoe-in to rock the tits off those Europeans and take home the crown... if only we send the RIGHT artist/s.

I mean look, it wasn't Deltoid's fault that she only placed fourth. Whilst a commendable effort and something you'd definitely hear on Video Hits on a Sunday morning circa 2009, Neighbours' own was simply too... vanilla.

It's time to send over someone (or something) who's a bit more Rage-worthy.

And so, we turn to you, fellow 'Strayans, to help us find that perfect choice.

Starting next week, we'll be kicking off a multi-week competition to unearth 'Straya's Choice' to represent our girted land at Eurovision 2027.

There will be 30 artists, spanning multiple genres, that will battle it out to see who will be our best chance at defeating Bulgaria.

Your friendly Mod Squad has pre-selected 10 artists, including:

• Spiderbait
• TISM
• Chet Faker
• Amyl and The Sniffers
• Glitoris and
• Haiku Hands

Now it's over to you lot to help us pick the other twenty.

The only rule is that they have to be alive, or at least ambulatory.

1️⃣ Pop your suggestions in this thread.
2️⃣ Submissions close midnight on Sunday.

And yes, this is fucking serious.

We'll be making an attempt to contact the winner.

Let's show the world what real talent sounds like.

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Credit: fairbairnfilms

Source: Stitched together from various YouTube clips.

A moment of kindness to cleanse your feed.

Credit: @The Paddlwans (2025)

It's that time again folks...

Lately we've been seeing a massive influx of posts focused on Middle Eastern related news, rumours, conspiracies... and worse.

Much of it has little to do with Australia, and basically nothing to do with this sub.

👉 Keep things related to Australia.

👉 Remember, we aren't just a politics sub.

👉 And no, we aren't trying to silence anyone.

The reason our feed isn't absolutely overrun with that sort of content, is because the mods are hard at work trying to filter out this sort of stuff, but it is becoming a tough slog.

As a politically neutral, 'open' and free-speech sub, you can imagine that we're a pretty big target for this sort of malarkey.

So, we're spinning up another topical mega thread to try and give other posters and topics a chance to breathe.

As always, we want to keep this as lightly moderated as possible, so we're counting on you to not get us flagged by the Reddit admin team. This is a hot topic/s right now, so try and remain civil with each other.

Cheers 🍻

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Since Feb 28th when the war started, we've been getting a massive spike of Iran War posts, many from bots and karma-farmers.

To keep the main feed free for others to have their say about Australian-related topics, and to try and tackle this rising bot issue, we are spinning up another mega thread.

We'll post this each week, so rest assured this isn't an attempt to silence the topic. In an ideal world, there wouldn't be a war to talk about, but here we are.

✅ Remember to follow The Pub Test
✅ be civil to each other
✅ keep-things on topic
✅ and Aussie-related

If in doubt, check the sub rules in the side bar, the pinned posts or DM the mod squad.

As always, we want to keep this as lightly moderated as possible, so we're counting on you to not get us flagged by the Reddit admin team.

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She'd actually prefer if you'd forget all about her....

That said, I've now completely rethought what mine-ing is all about. Praise be to Gina the Hutt for our collective awakening.