Tag: Gough Whitlam
If the polls are right, he may soon be the next Australian prime minister. So who is Anthony Albanese?
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Karen Middleton’s 2016 biography of Anthony Albanese concludes with a speech he made that year, on the 20th anniversary of his election...
Grattan on Saturday: We can’t know what sort of PM Albanese would be – but not for the reasons the government says
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Years ago, Kevin Rudd sold himself as a version of Howard-lite, as he sought to reassure voters he wouldn’t be scary....
‘Palace letters’ reveal the palace’s fingerprints on the dismissal of the Whitlam government
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The “palace letters” show the Australian Constitution’s susceptibility to self-interested behaviour by individual vice-regal representatives. They also reveal the vulnerability of...
Jenny Hocking: why my battle for access to the ‘Palace letters’ should matter to all Australians
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Professor Jenny Hocking recently won her longstanding campaign for the National Archives of Australia to release the so-called “Palace letters” about the...
What will the Turnbull-Morrison government be remembered for?
It is unlikely the Turnbull-Morrison Coalition
government will be remembered for any significant reforms. Lukas Coch/AAP
When the “mighty Roman” Gough Whitlam died, Indigenous...