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Dennis Altman
Dennis Altman is a Professorial Fellow at La Trobe University.
Books & arts
Agatha’s artefacts
Dennis Altman
8 November 2022
Despite her prejudices and shortcomings, something pulls us back to the bestselling crime writer of all
Books & arts
Monarchs on my mind
Dennis Altman
16 August 2021
Could constitutional monarchies be the best of a bad lot?
International
At the bully pulpit
Dennis Altman
19 December 2018
Two years into the job, Donald Trump’s future seems less certain than ever
Correspondents
In Mumbai, the contradictions and delights of hybridity and pastiche
Dennis Altman
16 June 2015
Now in its sixth year, the Kashish Queer Film Festival reflects an India that is changing regardless of lawmakers or the courts, reports
Dennis Altman
Essays & reportage
Labor’s Green opportunity
Dennis Altman
13 February 2014
Labor’s combative relationship with the Greens reflects its failure to develop a genuine counter-narrative to the Coalition worldview, argues
Dennis Altman
Essays & reportage
Winning the battle of ideas
Dennis Altman
26 August 2013
In many ways the opposition has already won this election by shifting the political middle ground, writes
Dennis Altman
Essays & reportage
Gay rights and the glass ceiling
Dennis Altman
29 July 2013
How much has changed over the past four decades, asks
Dennis Altman
in this extract from his new book,
The End of the Homosexual?
Essays & reportage
From a drowning to a celebration
Dennis Altman
11 December 2012
In this edited version of a recent Dunstan Foundation lecture,
Dennis Altman
looks at forty years of gay liberation and the work still to be done
International
Ideological uncertainties
Dennis Altman
29 August 2012
What would a Romney presidency mean for Australia, asks
Dennis Altman
Essays & reportage
Labor’s next generation
Dennis Altman
9 August 2012
Reports of Labor’s death have been grossly exaggerated, writes
Dennis Altman
Books & arts
Washington’s alpha male administration
Dennis Altman
29 November 2011
Dennis Altman
reviews Ron Suskind’s account of Barack Obama’s presidency
International
Obama’s America
Dennis Altman
12 June 2010
Change the government and you change the country, Paul Keating once said. But eighteen months into his first term, how much has Barack Obama’s America really changed, asks…
Essays & reportage
HIV/AIDS: the global outlook
Dennis Altman
26 November 2009
For World AIDS Day 2009,
Dennis Altman
surveys the key international issues in prevention and treatment
National affairs
Why are we in Afghanistan?
Dennis Altman
10 March 2009
Is Australia sleepwalking through a conflict with mixed objectives and uncertain prospects, asks
Dennis Altman
Books & arts
Reading Agatha Christie
Dennis Altman
5 January 2009
Just below the surface is another, less orderly world, writes
Dennis Altman