Nova Weetman (main picture) and partner Aidan Fennessy.
Nova Weetman/Darren James (main image)
Edwina Preston approaches Nova Weetman’s ‘generous and open’ grief memoir from a place of shared loss.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford makes an announcement on the province’s minimum wage in November 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Ontario almost joined Manitoba and Québec in eliminating the under-18 minimum wage 30 years ago. Then Bob Rae reneged on an election promise.
Blacktown City Libraries
What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …
Sales of so-called “dumb phones,” like flip and slide phones, are on the rise among the younger generation.
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Gen Z’s interest in flip phones is the latest in a series of obsessions young people have for the aesthetic of the 1990s and 2000s.
AAP Image/Dave Hunt
Launched in Brisbane in 1985, the final 9 stores will close this Sunday. Australia’s tastes have changed.
Queing to buy sausages amid a food shortage in Moscow in 1992.
Dima Korotayev/EPA
When Russia transitioned from a command economy to a market-based one, many thought it would lead to huge unemployment. It didn’t – but that’s because much of it was hidden.
Run for your lives!
Helen Stebakov
Anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers love Y2K for all the wrong reasons.
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Unlicensed music events are on the rise again – and the free parties of the 1980s and 90s show they’re not all bad.
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Bill Clinton and Donald Trump share an awkward anniversary.
A surveillance photograph of Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge, 1992.
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The radical right has a keen sense of its own history, and the violence of the 1990s is still fresh in its memory.
90s sister Sophie Lee in Patricia Piccinini’s
Psychogeography 1996, printed 1998.
from the Psycho series 1996.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Optus Communications Pty Limited, Member, 1998 (1998.252) © Patricia Piccinini
The 1990s was once the forgotten decade of the 20th century but no longer.
Kyle MacLachlan in the new season of Twin Peaks: has the Internet helped fuel nostalgia for TV shows from decades past?
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Twin Peaks has just hit our streaming services, again, alongside reboots of the X-Files, Gilmore Girls, and more. But, despite our nostalgia, they’ll never revive the specific time they were born in.
Ravers party hard even when surrounded by police – but the law is not on their side.
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The 20th century saw battle lines drawn between music-driven youth movements and the state like none before.