It's Australia Day and what could be more Aussie than listening to a Scottish-born singer on the shores of a Maldivian island?

A series of photographs show a 10-year-old in a close call with a great white shark north of Newcastle, with the boy unknowingly surfing over the top of it.

John John stars in Walsh's signature film. Does the support act beat the headliner?

Erm...yeah.

Never mind Van Gogh or Shakespeare, a pristine Wilderness - high art from surfing's Romantic period - has been uncovered in Yamba.

Part highlight reel, part bloodbath, Tom Lowe joins forces with Mickey Smith for some block rocking beatdowns.