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    ... family, and who would, in turn, change Australian political and cultural developments in the twentieth century. Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History is a magnificent biography that illuminates the path that took one man to ...

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    ... when a hostile Senate refused to vote on his 1975 budget, the political deadlock that ensued culminated in Whitlam's unexpected and deeply controversial dismissal by the governor-general, Sir John Kerr. Kerr was in close ...

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    ... dreams that one day she might work as a private secretary like her aunt. But when the reforms Whitlam championed give Christine the chance to go to university, her world expands. She experiences the transformative power ...

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    ... Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the last days of the Whitlam government; his path-breaking term as treasurer in the 1980s; his four-year prime ministership from 1991 to 1996 ...

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    ... Gary Gray AO was born in Yorkshire in 1958. His family migrated to Australian in 1966 and he met Gough Whitlam for the first time in 1977 when Gough was campaigning in the seat of Grey. Gary was National Secretary of ...

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    ... Which Labor loyalist called her own party out on police brutality when it wasn't fashionable? Which minister was Whitlam's steadiest performer? The answer to all these questions and more lies in the pages of Labor People ...

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    ... for Kerry Packer. He reveals the secrets he learnt from Neville Wran. He is open about his adulation of Gough Whitlam. Floating above all is Bob Carr's idea of public service in a party, he says, that resembles an old ...

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    ... new insights into the appointment of High Court and Supreme Court judges, as well as the dismissal of the Whitlam Government. This landmark biography is a groundbreaking account of the life and times of a man who shaped ...

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    ... charging of Leonard Warwick, who in September 2020, was sentenced to life in prison. An initiative of the Whitlam Government, the so-called 'helping court' opened its doors in January 1976. But despite the high idealism ...

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    ... always found himself in the hub of political and cultural times. Press Secretary to the Environment Minister in the Whitlam Government, he moved on to London, a witness to punk while living in a Trot squat and street ...

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    ... she lives in London, Paris, Bendigo and Holland, before returning to Sydney, keen to take part of Gough Whitlam's reformist agenda, in a powerful time of change. Yet Susan also spends a long time lost in the wilderness ...

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    ... and workers for a better nation. The book ranges from before the Menzies era and the Cold War, through the Whitlam period and beyond to the challenges of the 1980s. It shows how the editors constantly aimed for a culture ...

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    ... award-winning biography examines the career of a man who served the Chifley, Menzies, Gorton, McMahon, Whitlam and Fraser governments at a time when department heads still wielded considerable power. Reviewing the book ...

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    ... Palace Letters (2020) and The Dismissal (2015) with Paul Kelly. He is currently writing a biography of Gough Whitlam. Troy's biography of Bob Hawke was shortlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. He ...

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    ... as a brilliant profile writer; among his subjects are Alan Jones, Dame Edna Everage, Helen Garner, Margaret Whitlam, Oriana Fallaci, the Dalai Lama and Xena, Warrior Princess. The recipient of a number of awards, David ...

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    ... his first mini-budget lockup in 1974, and was soon covering the financial roller coaster ridden by the Whitlam government. From then on, no government and no treasurer has escaped analysis - he anoints Keating, Costello ...

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    ... Weaver writes generously and wittily on her life, her loves and her passions. Dubbed a National Treasure by Gough Whitlam, a Gay Icon by Les McDonald and a Household Name by the Sydney Morning Herald ('so is Sorbent ...

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    ... as well as the Seven and Ten television networks, and was a press secretary to Labor leader Gough Whitlam. He has known Paul Keating for 40 years. Author: Kerry O'Brien. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Biographies ...

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    ... '. Along the way Busst obtained the active support of five current or future prime ministers - Holt, Whitlam, Gorton, Hawke and Fraser. This inspiring biography, from award-winning historian Iain McCalman, is a timely ...

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    ... places, from early twentieth century Adelaide to pre-independence Papua New Guinea; from Canberra in the time of Whitlam to Darwin in the time of Tracy; from motherhood to management; from dirty nappies to dinner with ...

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    ... -1995), spanning the rise and fall of governments. From the Menzies era to the promise of Gough Whitlam, and the reforms under Askin, Wran, Fraser, and the ambitious Hawke-Keating period, Purcell's unwavering commitment ...

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    ... as well as the Seven and Ten television networks, and was a press secretary to Labor leader Gough Whitlam. He has honorary doctorates from the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology. Author ...

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    ... salacious guide to one of the world's greatest - and most beloved - cities. About the Author Nicholas Whitlam is a company director and former banker. A graduate in history from Harvard, Paris 1924 is his fourth book ...

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    ... transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked. The Whitlam government of 1972-75 appointed a women's advisor to national government - a world first - and ...

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    ... on holiday and Berlin en fête - four weeks, however, when it all went wrong. About the Author Nicholas Whitlam is a prominent Australian businessman. A graduate in history from Harvard, Four Weeks One Summer is his third ...

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    ... about competing accounts of how to legitimate informal constitutional change. For Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and the parliamentary tradition that he invoked, national elections sufficiently legitimated even the most ...

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    ... and havingthe whole world to ride it in. Before too long Marnie is gifted Mrs Margaret 'Maggie' Whitlam, a beautiful, bigClydesdale bold, fearless and able to jump anything. From the very first ride, Marnie and ...

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    ... to the time in which they were built as well as by the standards of today. Author: Whitlam Johnathon. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Transportation Road & Motor Vehicles in General Motor Cars in General Tractors ...

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    ... , for the first time the circumstances surrounding the alleged role of ASIO in the demise of the Whitlam Government are revealed, and the question of the CIA's involvement in Australia is explored. The extraordinary ...

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    ... at a time when inequality is rising and dissatisfaction with politics is at its highest since the Whitlam government dismissal. The mining boom, when it has been written about previously, is usually only considered as ...

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    ... directors in the 1950s and 60s led to the emergence of national endeavours under the guidance of Gough Whitlam. About the Authors Dr Joanna Mendelssohn is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of New South ...

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    ... Australian Prime Minister John Gorton who quickened the pace of change following a visit to PNG by Gough Whitlam at the start of 1970, and the Australian ministers and officials who worked constructively with their PNG ...

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    By the late 1960s, Indigenous education in Australia was in crisis. When Whitlam swept to power in 1972, his Labor government reached out to Indigenous people to guide change at a national level. The National Aboriginal ...

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    ... The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975. In The Truth of the Palace Letters Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston reveal their meaning ...

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    ... Higgins, Alfred Deakin, Edith Cowan, Lord Atkin, Robert Menzies, WJV Windeyer, Roma Mitchell, Gough Whitlam, Ron Wilson, Christopher Weeramantry, Gerard Brennan, William Deane, Robin Sharwood, Eddie Mabo, Murray Gleeson ...

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    ... famine that took most of the lives lost during the occupation. The Australian governments of Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser presented themselves as advocates for human rights and the international rule of law, while ...

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    ... 's work to date. There are indelible portraits of political leaders seen close up - Keating, Rudd, Whitlam, Turnbull and more. There is Pearson's brilliant exploration of a Voice to Parliament, which led eventually ...

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    ... of questions that should not remain unanswered. In 1972, it was 'Time' for a change in Federal Government as Whitlam brought Labor back from the dead, and in our relations with China, "Number 96" won the TV credits ...

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    ... families, barbie dolls, and growing up in the age of Fibs bras and the rise and fall of the Whitlam government. Author: Beth Spencer. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Short Stories

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    ... ), and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2016-2019). Professor Linda Briskman holds the Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work at Western Sydney University. She previously held the Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair ...

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    ... complicated relationship through the prism of the prime ministers who have handled relations with Beijing since Whitlam in 1972. Much recent analysis assumes that managing China has been difficult only since 2017. Yet ...

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    ... into the Great Depression. John Curtin faced the ultimate challenge of wartime leadership. John Gorton, Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating each shook up their parties' policies so vigorously that none lasted much longer than ...

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    ... age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies' return and the rise of television, to Gough Whitlam's 'It's Time' victory in 1972. During this crucial period, twelve independent newspaper companies turned into a ...

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    ... kept drivers in their place. Billy McMahon took over as PM, when Gorton voted against himself. Gough Whitlam, Opposition Leader, verntured to visit the Red baddies in China. Neville Bonner was the first Aboriginal in ...

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    ... again in flashbacks. The daughter of Cambodian refugees, Ai grew up in the small Australian town of Whitlam populated by Asian immigrants who once fled war-torn countries to rebuild their shattered lives. It is now ...

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    ... to the tragedies of Hughes and Scullin, through the 1940s legends Curtin and Chifley to governments of Whitlam, Hawke, Keating, Rudd and Gillard, A Little History of the Australian Labor Party recounts times of triumph ...

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    ... any ownership over the land on which they had lived for tens of thousands of years. In 1975 Gough Whitlam poured a handful of sand into the palm of Gurindji Elder Vincent Lingiari to symbolise the granting of deeds to ...

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    ... boats and never giving up their conniving efforts to keep pets. It's also a slice of life in the exciting Whitlam days of the '70s, when change was in the air, hope sparkled and Fitzroy, in the heart of Melbourne, was ...

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    ... book brings a landmark historical event to a new generation. Many people have seen the iconic photograph of Gough Whitlam pouring a handful of red soil into the hands of Vincent Lingiari - a symbol of the legal transfer ...

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    ... ’s book was chosen from six shortlisted books: Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond; Comrade Ambassador: Whitlam's Beijing Envoy by Stephen FitzGerald; Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather by Karen Lamb; Bearing ...

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    ... the most fascinating people. Most remarkable amongst them have been former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, David and Richard Attenborough and Nobel ...

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