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Written by Kade Matthews From little things, big things grow – and Bushrangers Basketball is no exception. Like most passion projects, it was founded with …

Veteran gay rights activist and academic Dennis Altman’s memoir Unrequited Love recently hit the bookshops. He gave the Star Observer’s Andrew M Potts his take …

Ricki Couglan became the first trans athlete to compete openly in sport with the blessing of Athletics Australia in 1993 after being outed in the …

As the weeks wear on since the Morrison Government’s Religious Discrimination Bill was unveiled, Labor’s silence becomes more conspicuous and troubling with every day. The …

To say our LGBTI communities have a long and complicated history with police, and the justice system more broadly, would be an understatement. While we …

On December 21 of last year George Pell was convicted of one of the most heinous of crimes, that of child sexual abuse.  His acts, …

I’ve worked in underground mining for close to fifteen years, so that’s most of my working career since I was 21. After keeping being gay …

Looking back on the history of the Star Observer’s Melbourne publications, it is incredibly fitting that exactly 34 years to the month of its first …

Cult filmmaker and ‘Pope of Trash’ John Waters is returning to Australia to promote his book Mr Know-It-All and perform his spoken word show, Make …

It’s been seven years since the Sydney Star Observer masthead was retired and rolled in with Melbourne’s Southern Star newspaper to create a national title. …