An oral history of the Warwick & Joanne Capper ‘Penthouse’ shoot Like the 1960s, the 1990s were a break-out period for sexuality in pop culture. Basic Instinct, topless Calvin Klein ads and widespread ...

I first learned of Captain Moonlite from the historian Graham Willett. In Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne, a book Willett co-edited, Moonlite features “as the bushranger most likely to qualify as ...

Paul Kelly and the Dots. Turns out they’ve got the residency, every Friday night at the Kingston Hotel. And Friday night rolls around fast, so before you know it you’re back there checking them out ...

Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s breakthrough film stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a story of lesbian fertility ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a persuasive reminder that the US has always been a less than perfect democracy ...

There is a persistent quote that stalks all music writers. Its provenance is disputed – Thelonius Monk? Clara Schumann? Laurie Anderson? Elvis Costello? – but it is widely held to settle everything: ...

One hot afternoon in February 2014, in the pleasant Victorian township of Tyabb, south-east of Melbourne, an 11-year-old boy called Luke Batty was playing in the nets after cricket practice with his ...

Despite more than 25 years of anti-discrimination legislation, it remains the case that the higher up any organisational ladder you look, the fewer women you see. In Australia, for example, women made ...

If Bob Marley is reggae’s saint – and The Wailers’ commercial breakthrough, Catch a Fire, was also released in 1973 – then Toots Hibbert, who led the Maytals, was its greatest and most ebullient ...

Labor, the Greens and GetUp are preparing for battle in the Queensland electorate of Dickson Dutton country does the best wild dog signs. They start a few minutes’ drive out of the village of Samford, ...

The children left behind by Australian sex tourists in the Philippines The sky bruises at the same time each day in Angeles City. Then the rain comes. The weather is so similar – steamy heat, then ...