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Essays & Reportage
The #MeToo generations
Jane Goodall
12 February 2018
Can the campaign encompass vastly different experiences?
Books & Arts
A shrewd appraisal of sameness and difference
Frank Bongiorno
25 November 2017
A new book takes a nuanced look at ageing gay men and the world they live in
National Affairs
Beyond the Hipster Line
Frank Bongiorno
19 November 2017
Perhaps the most interesting results of the marriage-equality survey were to be seen outside the eastern capitals
National Affairs
Marriage equality gets a Yes; uncertainty strikes in Bennelong
Peter Brent | Mumble
15 November 2017
Both votes are a test for the government, but the second has suddenly become less predictable
National Affairs
Marriage polling and the warhorse factor
Peter Brent | Mumble
27 September 2017
Despite differences over how many voters have already returned their surveys, the latest polls tell a near-identical story
National Affairs
Careful what you wish for
Peter Brent | Mumble
12 September 2017
The Yes campaign needs to be wary of over-enthusiastic supporters
National Affairs
Urgent, unforeseen — and far-reaching?
Tony Blackshield
8 September 2017
A leading constitutional lawyer looks at why the High Court decided to agree with the government about the same-sex marriage survey
National Affairs
A nice set of numbers?
Peter Brent | Mumble
24 August 2017
Enrolment figures, poll results and pre-survey nerves have encouraged wrong-headed punditry about marriage equality
National Affairs
Marriage equality’s secret weapon
Peter Brent | Mumble
10 August 2017
Could one divisive figure decide the result?
National Affairs
The plebiscite problem
Peter Brent | Mumble
13 September 2016
Among the real risks of the marriage equality vote is the possibility it might fail, says
Peter Brent
National Affairs
The Liberal nonconformist from Sydney’s west
Robert Milliken
8 September 2015
Liberal MP Craig Laundy’s call for the Abbott government to take more refugees from Syria has upset conservatives in his party. He discusses his frustration with contemporary…
National Affairs
Abbott’s end game
Peter Brent | Mumble
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
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
National Affairs
How gay marriage fell victim to Labor’s Stockholm Syndrome
Peter Brent | Mumble
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
Indecent history
Susan Lever
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
Gay rights and gay wrongs
Graham Willett
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
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
Essays & Reportage
William Chidley’s answer to the sex problem
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
The Labor way
Frank Bongiorno
7 December 2011
The Labor conference exposed the party’s – and the government’s – weaknesses, writes
Frank Bongiorno