The road to same-sex marriage support has been long - and the fight isn\u27t over yet

Today\u27s same-sex marriage survey results represent a moment of extraordinary change. It is well within living memory that homosexuality in Australia was considered a crime, a sickness and a threat to the nation itself. The final Australian state to decriminalise male homosexuality was Tasmania, as recently as 1997. Plenty of gay men still remember the fear of prison terms that shadowed their lives. Plenty of lesbians still remember that, although their sex lives were never criminalised, the police and the courts found ways to oppress and harass them nonetheless. Many LGBTIQ people still carry the emotional and physical scars of brutal medical interventions designed to fix something that was never broken. And yet, from the birth of the Australian lesbian and gay rights movement at the end of the 1960s, through the growing inclusivity of LGBTIQ activist politics in the decades since, we have somehow reached a point in November 2017 where millions of heterosexual Australians have chosen to tick a box saying yes . In the process, they have helped a once demonised, pathologised and criminalised minority take a major step towards equality

Why are we still scared of seeing two men kissing?

Although details remain uncertain, the father of Omar Mateen has claimed that his son\u27s murderous acts in Orlando\u27s Pulse nightclub last Saturday may have been inspired by the sight of two men kissing. In response, a twitter campaign with the hashtag #TwoMenKissing has encouraged men to tweet photographs of themselves kissing another man. This is an act of pride and defiance in the face of violent oppression. It also reveals the ongoing politics of men kissing in public

With Moonlight\u27s Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs

When Faye Dunaway, standing next to a puzzled-looking Warren Beatty, announced that La La Land had won Best Picture at Monday\u27s Oscars, I doubt many people were surprised. Sure, pretty much all of the queer film fans, writers and academics I follow on Twitter were hoping for a win by the new gay classic Moonlight, but we are a crowd that has been disappointed before

Review of the 2011 IAMCR Conference

The International Association of Media and Communication Research 2011 conference was held in Istanbul between the 13th and 17th July 201

Understanding social attitudes related to the success of area-wide weed management: preliminary report for the intensive survey

Weeds are one of Australia’s most persistent agricultural and environmental challenges. The mobility of weeds, biological controls and herbicide resistance, means that weed management is a landscape-scale problem that requires community-wide solutions. The need for weed management to work effectively across property and institutional boundaries, means that an in-depth understanding of the attitudes, practices and relationships of various actors involved in weed management is needed

The Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and History Bibliography of the Caddo Indian Peoples of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas

The Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and History Bibliography of the Caddo Indian Peoples of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas

In Defence of Working Papers

Working papers are academic articles in various stages of completion, which represents a significant publication venue in various academic disciplines. Nonetheless, there have been considerable amount of critiques on working paper in recent years, especially on its quality and conflict with formal publications. Given the above situation, this article offers a defence of the academic values of working papers. After outlining and addressing common misunderstandings of working papers, the article discusses their four major benefits: the provision of valuable feedback on interim findings, the potential for collaboration, flexible means of dissemination, and the value for intellectual development and capacity building (especially for graduate students). Overall, these benefits underscore a commitment to open-access research that is accessible to the public at large

Understanding social attitudes related to the success of area-wide weed management: preliminary findings from Sunraysia

Weeds are one of Australia’s most persistent agricultural and environmental challenges. The mobility of weeds, biological controls and herbicide resistance, means that weed management is a landscape-scale problem that requires community-wide solutions. The need for weed management to work effectively across property and institutional boundaries, means that an in-depth understanding of the attitudes, practices and relationships of various actors involved in weed management is needed

Understanding social attitudes related to the success of area-wide weed management: preliminary findings from the Darling Downs

Weeds are one of Australia’s most persistent agricultural and environmental challenges. The mobility of weeds, biological controls and herbicide resistance, means that weed management is a landscape-scale problem that requires community-wide solutions. The need for weed management to work effectively across property and institutional boundaries, means that an in-depth understanding of the attitudes, practices and relationships of various actors involved in weed management is needed