The turbulent times of Don Dunstan, a revolutionary in hotpants He was charismatic, flamboyant and controversial. A decade after his death, Australians are still divided by the nation's most ...

Don Dunstan never dumbed himself down and the voters loved him. Credit: Bryan Charlton A couple of years after this peak popularity, when Dunstan’s star was falling, then ACTU and ALP president ...

First biography since Don Dunstan’s death reveals his double life drove him to resign. HIS fear of being outed for homosexual affairs contributed to Don Dunstan collapsing and resigning in 1979 ...

In the space of a few years in the 1970s, Don Dunstan separated from his first wife, had at least four passionate affairs — with a Brazilian actress, a Greek female union activist, a male member ...

Don Dunstan’s first crack. There was submerged racism too – but only against the English. The ten-pound Poms quickly swamped our half-dozen houses on all sides as Wender and Duerholt popped up ...

The shorts were bequeathed to Dunstan’s widowed partner, Stephen Cheng, who donated them for display when they were this year elevated to icon status in Adelaide's new Centre for Democracy.

Don Dunstan: The man who could’ve been PM. It has been 20 years since the beloved Don Dunstan died — and two decades after his death, the first full biography documenting his life comes to a ...

It’s hard to overstate the importance of Sunday Too Far Away for the fledgling South Australian Film Corporation.

ENCAPSULATING the life of the controversial, flamboyant and reforming South Australian premier Don Dunstan is a challenge that has eluded historians and biographers.

Don Dunstan was different, and joins select prime ministers – Julia Gillard, the subject of a recent political monodrama by Joanna Murray-Smith, or Paul Keating, ...

Dunstan covers the inner eastern suburbs of Adelaide, including Norwood, Kent Town, ... Don Dunstan, who gained the seat for Labor at the 1953 election and held it until his retirement in 1979.

After the Liberal and Country League had held control over the state government for 32 years under a “Playmander”, named for premier Thomas Playford, the Labor party, lead by Don Dunstan, was ...