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One step forward, three steps back
Lesley Russell
11 July 2023
Despite an encouraging decision on voting laws, the US Supreme Court has continued attacking Americans’ rights
Books & Arts
Baked into our bricks
Zora Simic
7 June 2023
A writer considers the “state of the sexual nation”
Essays & Reportage
Lifting the shadow
Anne-Marie Condé
29 March 2023
What constitutes “evidence” of a queer life?
Books & Arts
What is this thing I’m doing?
Zora Simic
13 October 2022
Two new books explore the territory between polyamory’s utopian history and its practice today
Books & Arts
Pleasure and intimacy
Alecia Simmonds
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
Books & Arts
Back to the future
Zora Simic
14 September 2021
Amia Srinivasan follows up her breakthrough
London Review of Books
essay with a rewarding but sometimes frustrating essay collection
Essays & Reportage
When the personal became political
Michelle Arrow
6 October 2020
The seventies were a decade of extraordinary social upheaval, writes the presenter of this year’s Ernest Scott Lecture
Books & Arts
You’ve got to give it to Cupid
Nick Haslam
25 September 2019
Books
| A psychologist looks at how brain damage and disease can influence sexuality
Essays & Reportage
The Liberal nonconformist from Sydney’s west
Robert Milliken
16 March 2019
Craig Laundy has announced he won’t be seeking another term in federal parliament.
Inside Story
caught up with him in September 2015
Books & Arts
The decade of thinking dangerously
Susan Lever
8 March 2019
The 1970s saw the rise of women as a political constituency in Australia
Essays & Reportage
Gender troubles
Hannah McCann & Lucy Nicholas
18 February 2019
Is “gender ideology” really a danger to feminism?
National Affairs
A year can be a very long time in politics
John Rickard
16 October 2018
This time in 2017, Australians were voting on marriage equality. What happened next?
Books & Arts
Scandal as tragedy
Jane Goodall
8 October 2018
Television
| Awkward questions are raised by
A Very English Scandal
and
The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Books & Arts
On listening
Sara Dowse
14 September 2018
Books
| Germaine Greer has always been sharper as a critic than as a proponent of solutions
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
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
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
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
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
10 August 2017
Could one divisive figure decide the result?
National Affairs
The plebiscite problem
Peter Brent
13 September 2016
Among the real risks of the marriage equality vote is the possibility it might fail, says
Peter Brent
National Affairs
Abbott’s end game
Peter Brent
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
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?
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