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Homegrown rock legends AC/DC to tour Australia

Homegrown rock legends AC/DC will bring their tour to Australia later this year for the first time in a decade.

The band will be performing the 2025 POWER UP Tour! at stadiums in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide in November and December.

Melbourne-based rockers Amyl and the Sniffers will be the support act for the Australian tour, which will take place following shows in the US and Europe.

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Brian Johnson of AC/DC performs

AC/DC will perform at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on November 12, Accor Stadium in Sydney on November 21, the BP Adelaide Grand Final on November 30, Optus Stadium in Perth on December 4 and will finish up at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on December 14.

Tickets will go on sale this Thursday, June 26 and Ticketek has advised fans to be prepared as it's expected the seats will be a hot commodity.

Those hoping to score tickets have been warned to update their details on the Ticketek app and to use just one device and browser to access tickets on the day.

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The Ticketek lounge will open one hour before the sale time for each city.

Melbourne tickets will go on sale 1pm AEST, Sydney tickets at 9am AEST, Perth tickets at 1pm AWST and Brisbane tickets at 11am AEST.

Adelaide tickets won't be sold through Ticketek and will instead be available from 10am ACST through Ticketmaster.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 01: (left to right) Malcolm Young, Bon Scott, Angus Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd of Australian rock band AC/DC pose in London, England in August 1979. (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)

Ticket prices range between $132.45 for B-reserve seating and $407.70 for ultimate A-reserve seating.

Melbourne City Council will also put in a bid for the band to recreate its iconic It's a Long Way to the Top music video, which was famously filmed on Swanson Street in 1976.

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Arrests made after 145 people ‘stabbed with syringes’ at festival

Nearly 150 people have reported being stabbed with syringes at a popular music festival taking place across France.

Police have arrested twelve suspects after revellers said they were pricked with syringes, including 13 victims in Paris, during the country's annual Fête de la Musique festival.

The festival drew crowds all over the country, with millions taking to the streets to celebrate the start of summer, resulted in densely-packed streets in Paris.

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PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 21: Thousands of people gather at the Chatelet district and on the banks of the Seine to celebrate Fete De La Musique 2025 as bands and DJ's play across Paris, France on June 21, 2025. (Photo by Luc Auffret/Anadolu via Getty Images)

France's interior ministry said 145 victims reported being stabbed with needles.

In Paris, police began investigating after a 15-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man said they had been stabbed in separate incidents across the capital.

The exact contents of the syringes remains unknown, however some victims reported feeling unwell.

"Some victims were taken to hospital for toxicological tests," the ministry said.

Ahead of the festival, posts shared on Snapchat and other social media called for people to target women, local media reported.

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François Grosdidie, Mayor of Metz, shares Instagram post of police after reports of syringe attacks across France

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The first attack was reported around 9.15pm local time in the city of Metz, north-eastern France, mayor François Grosdidie said.

Grosdidie said around 15 young girls aged between 14 to 20 were victims in Metz.

"The risks are always present in unbridled environments and, over the hours, intoxicated. But we've faced syringe aggression," Grosdidie said in a translated post on Instagram.

Twelve people suspected of being responsible for the stabbings have been taken into custody.

More than 370 people were also detained during the festival on other charges.

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Revolutionary high-risk, early-stage melanoma treatment sees survival rates surge

A revolution in the treatment of high-risk, early-stage melanoma has been reached, with clinical trial results seeing surging survival rates.

Doctors are confident the new therapy approach, which will be subsidised by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), will overhaul the treatment of many types of deadly cancers. 

A tumour the size of a golf ball saw death come knocking for Matthew Croxford.

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A revolution in the treatment of late-stage melanoma has been reached with clinical trial results seeing surging survival rates

"You think – is this it?" the 52-year-old father-of-two told 9News.

"And I had a lot of things to still achieve in my life."

Croxford was offered to take part in an Australian and Netherlands-driven trial.

The new therapy has flipped the cancer paradigm on its head, by giving the body the best opportunity to activate its own cancer-fighting defences.

"It's like the sniffer dogs that find the fruit and veg and drugs at the airport, they're trained against what they need to find," The Melanoma Institute's Professor Georgina Long said.

"By giving immunotherapy before surgery, we train our immune system better against the cancer," she said.

A new therapy has flipped the cancer paradigm on its head by giving the body the best opportunity to activate its own cancer-fighting defences.

Of the 423 patients with Stage 3 melanoma, one group received usual treatment with surgery first, then a single immunotherapy drug. 

That order was then flipped for the other group, who were given two immunotherapy drugs first to shrink the tumour before surgery. 

"Their chance of the melanoma coming back is next to zero – it's less than five per cent," Long said.

Such revolutionary results have seen the treatment approved to be funded by the PBS – a world first. 

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Croxford was offered to take part in an Australian and Netherlands-driven trial.

Australia has the highest rates of melanoma in the world, with one person diagnosed every 30 minutes and a life lost every six hours because of the disease. 

Advances in treatment like this shift a diagnosis that has often been a death sentence to promising odds of survival. 

"I'm effectively cancer-free, I have no side effects whatsoever, and I'm incredibly fortunate," Croxford said.

"It's like the sniffer dogs that find the fruit and veg and drugs at the airport, they're trained against what they need to find," The Melanoma Institute's Professor Georgina Long said.

The radical overhaul of traditional treatment is now being explored for other cancers, including lung, triple-negative breast cancer, kidney, head and neck cancers.

This new treatment for Stage 3 melanoma patients is to be listed on the PBS within months.

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