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Yesterday Billabong announced it had received notice of a class action lawsuit over market disclosures it made in 2011.

In June all 507 of WA's pastoral leases will expire, and the Government has sent out 503 lease renewals. However, the owners of Gnaraloo and Red Bluff are among the four stations that haven't received renewals. What happens next will decide what surfers will find when they make the seasonal run to the north-west.

What is pro surfing if the participants don't care about winning or losing? If they don't care when a call goes against them?

Just a surf video, that's what.

After running just two out of six big wave events last season, the WSL's Big Wave Tour has taken another hit of credibility with South African surfers pulling Dungeons from the itinerary.

Having recently broken a favourite board blindboy was moved to ponder the implications of our relationship with our most beloved boards.

What are the PWC laws on the Coolangatta points and how are they enforced? Swellnet investigates the situation and finds a system that can successfully self-regulate but one that also protects the cowboys.

On Wednesday, Australia's first large-scale wave energy project went online off the coast of Perth. It's a promising development, but challenges remain to make the technology viable.

A new study shows that surfers perform more rescues in the surf than was first suspected. 

Another flying longboard, another serious injury, and another graphic reminder why legropes aren't such a bad idea after all.

Warning: The reminder is graphic.

From a trickle to a deluge: the internet has opened the gates and released a torrent of surf media upon us. Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? And what might the future of surf media look like..?