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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dennis Altman

Dennis Altman is a writer and academic who first came to attention with the publication of his book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation in 1972, which was published in eight countries. He has written eleven books. He is Director of the Institute for Human Security at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, and is well known as a commentator on the ABC and Australian newspapers.

Articles by Dennis Altman:

10 August 20171 May 2019 · LGBTIQ

A non-binding poll: how bizarre

Dennis Altman

So far the conservatives have out-manoeuvred the marriage equality movement. Defeating them in the so-called plebiscite will finally end years of shadow boxing over what should be a simple decision, namely to amend the Marriage Act to remove the requirement that marriage be solely between a man and a woman.

14 November 2012 · Main Posts

Subscriberthon 2012: Dennis Altman on journals as communities of ideas and people

Dennis Altman

Small magazines also need a particular position, even if it is one as bizarrely reactionary as the current Quadrant. Overland began fifty years ago with the slogan ‘temper democratic, bias Australian’, and if today this seems rather parochial it also reminds us that to publish in Overland is to commit to both a literary and a political community.

14 August 2012 · Main Posts

Altman on Vidal

Dennis Altman

Gore Vidal first visited Australia in 1974, and lunched with Prime Minister Whitlam at the Lodge, where they sparred jocularly over the historical accuracy of Vidal’s novel about the Roman Emperor, Julian. Vidal was much taken with Gough, though he remarked that it was difficult to preserve the line between vanity and overweening vanity. The same could be said of Vidal himself.