Life on welfare, being Miss Universe, and where have all the lesbian bars gone?

In her latest book, anthropologist Eve Vincent tracks the history of Australia’s welfare system and asks why it has become so punitive in its provision of ‘care’. Former Miss World contestant, Maria Thattil, tells how she wanted to shake things up at the world’s biggest beauty pageant. And as Sydney World Pride gets underway, we ask, where have all the lesbian bars gone?