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 ...

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 ...

Biography Don Dunstan Angela Woollacott Allen & Unwin, $32.99. Dictatorships aside, ask anyone to name a head of government whose approval rating was 82 per cent after six years in power and they ...

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’s secret love affair and engagement to teacher Enid Brown, eight years his senior. A TEENAGE Don Dunstan had an affair with — and became engaged to — a schoolteacher when he was ...

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 ...

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

Not there: Don Dunstan: Intimacy and Liberty, by Dino Hodge. In the previous 199 pages, though, we hear little of him, but much of the persecutions of homosexuals in Adelaide after 1850, copiously ...

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

Don Dunstan is the youth in the doublet and hose back r9ow, centre, Photo: Courtesy Colin Ballantyne Collection, held by the Performing Arts Collection at the Festival Centre.

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 ...