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Heartbreak High screenwriter Hannah Carroll Chapman on her big award and season three of the international hit show

This week, students across Australian universities have joined campuses in the United States to in setting up pro-Palestinian encampments. Students all across Australia are setting up camp calling on their teaching institutions to disclose and cut ties with weapons manufacturers they say are supplying arms to Israel.

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays the blame for the sudden uptick in mental health problems among Gen Z on social media and smartphones. 

The twin pressures of cost of living and the fight against inflation will be front and centre on Tuesday night when Treasurer Jim Chalmers hands down his third budget.

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise Palestine as qualified to join the organisation but stopped of short conferring full UN membership.

The Yakuza, Japan's organised crime clans, have long been a source of fascination in the west.