Tom Morello will talk music, activism, and how the guitar can be a divining rod for truth and justice at this year's BIGSOUND.

Eleven-year old Australian guitar prodigy Taj Farrant recorded his debut single last month at Lucky Boy studios, based in Byron Bay.

UBS chairman Axel Weber has been studying the feasibility of a mega-merger with rival Credit Suisse that would create a Swiss banking giant.

It comes as NSW recorded only one locally acquired case of COVID-19, but authorities fear the community could become complacent.