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