From the revival of baking, pickling and beards to the fetishisation of former public housing and terraces, austerity nostalgia has taken prominence in our cultural landscape. But one expert believes it's also obscuring our political reality.

An 18-year-old man is critically ill after nine partygoers were taken to hospital following a mass drug overdose at a Melbourne dance party, prompting health warnings and renewed calls for pill testing at events.

Does Missy Higgins or Nick Cave have the more verbose lyrics? And between Courtney Barnett, Paul Kelly and Kasey Chambers, whose lyrics are more readable?

Donald and Melania Trump wanted to borrow a Van Gogh painting from New York's Guggenheim Museum, but are instead offered a working solid-gold toilet made by an Italian artist.

The media mogul was urged to run for the US presidency in 2020 following her impassioned Golden Globes speech against sexual harassment and assault, but says being in the White House is "not something that interests me".