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Paramount Pictures/IMDB While many teen films fade away never to be heard of again, Clueless, a loose adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, has remained in the...

Picture: David Crosling/ AAP A growing number of Australians support the legalisation of cannabis, while almost three in five back the idea of pill...

Lockdown isolation blues Many Victorians are now well into their second round of stage 3 lockdown, under which there are only a handful of...

Picture: Daniel Pockett/AAP The current surge in community transmission of COVID-19 in Victoria has brought renewed discussion of whether Australia should maintain its current “suppression” strategy,...

Picture: Independent Australia The “palace letters” show the Australian Constitution’s susceptibility to self-interested behaviour by individual vice-regal representatives. They also reveal the vulnerability of...

Picture: Harish Tyagi/EPA/AAP The World Health Organisation reported more than 230,000 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday — the world’s largest daily increase during the pandemic. The...

Picture: National Archives of Australia Forty-five years after they were written, hundreds of previously secret letters between the queen and the governor-general of Australia,...

Picture: Library of Congress Curtis Sittenfeld has a knack of putting her readers in uncomfortable places in her fiction. In her short story Gender Studies she...

Shutterstock It is now almost six months since the world became aware of COVID-19, and almost four months since the World Health Organisation declared a...

State Government of Victoria/Agriculture, Water and the Environment Australia roared into 2020 as a land on fire. The human and property loss was staggering,...