National affairs
13 August 2015
His leadership again under threat, the prime minister is locked in a potentially terminal embrace with his party’s right, writes Peter Brent
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
National affairs
25 May 2015
A referendum on same-sex marriage would be a bad idea, writes Peter Brent. But the fact that the issue has got to this point says a lot about the Labor Party
Books & arts
8 January 2015
Television | With a third season of Masters of Sex screening this year, Susan Lever charts the highs and lows of a TV drama inspired by real events
National affairs
15 July 2014
In its coverage of gay law reform over the past fifty years, the Australian has charted a course from pacesetter to curmudgeon, writes Graham Willett in this…
Essays & reportage
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
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
Essays & reportage
4 July 2012
Born to a free-thinking family in Melbourne around 1860, William Chidley became an energetic campaigner with some surprisingly respectable supporters, writes Frank …
National affairs
7 December 2011
The Labor conference exposed the party’s – and the government’s – weaknesses, writes Frank Bongiorno