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Jenny Hocking
The first contemporary biographical study of Gough Whitlam from his childhood in Canberra, his extensive war service and marriage to Margaret. This book draws upon the author’s unprecedented access to…
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Gough Whitlam
Passionate, pithy, learned, witty, and vigorously combative, The Truth of the Matter tells the extraordinary political story of the only Prime Minister of Australia ever deposed from office. On Remembrance…
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Ian Killey
This book explores the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, focusing on the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and its implications for Australian constitutional law and politics.
On Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, sacked the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict. This…
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Graham Freudenberg
The inside account of Gough Whitlam’s political rise and fall is one of the great classics of Australian political writing. As Gough’s speechwriter and confidant, Graham Freudenberg was an eyewitness…
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This moment was not his alone, nor could it ever have come about without him … Gough Whitlam turned to Graham Freudenberg, touched him lightly on the shoulder, saying, ‘It’s…
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The first contemporary biographical study of Gough Whitlam from his childhood in Canberra, his extensive war service and marriage to Margaret, this book draws upon the author’s unprecedented access to…
Thomas McIlroy
An iconic American painting. An Australian controversy. Where art and politics, myth-making and modernism intersect, there is Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock. Now in the eye-opening Blue Poles book, journalist…
When Gough Whitlam died in October 2014, the outpouring of affectionate remembrances and genuine grief expressed across Australia was extraordinary. Not Just For This Life commemorates and celebrates Gough’s life…
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Gough Whitlam, Australia’s twenty-first prime minister, swept to power in…
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Professor Jenny Hocking
What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr’s plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in…
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Don Dunstan
Just weeks before he died on 6 February 1999, Don Dunstan completed the last of many articles written for the Adelaide Review. In these articles he wrote of the importance…
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