John Carlson AM was Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office from 1989 to his retirement in 2010. His current affiliations include Senior Associate Fellow, ...

In a speech to mark 50 years since the day, Anthony Albanese says: The Dismissal was a calculated plot, hatched by conservative forces which sacrificed conventions and institutions in the pursuit of ...

In an extract from The Double Dismissal, Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking, distinguished fellow of the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University, and Dr Matt Harvey, senior lecturer at ...

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Her research centres upon Australia's colonial past and its legacies in the present. Her books include ‘Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire’ (Cambridge University ...

“Steve Bannon motivating Democratic voters,” said one historian in response to comments by the former Trump White House adviser. Far-right podcaster and former top presidential adviser Steve Bannon ...

In an extract from The Double Dismissal, Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking, distinguished fellow of the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University, and Dr Matt Harvey, senior lecturer at ...

Life in Beijing in 1975 was not easy and the events leading up to the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government in November piled on the pressure. There were practical problems and there was existential ...

I was familiar with many of the events leading to the Dismissal on 11 November 1975. That knowledge was greatly increased by Professor Jenny Hocking with her long and successful campaign to have the ...

Gough Whitlam’s head mandarin and Pearls & Irritations founder & editor-in-chief John Menadue shares what he sees as the lessons of the Whitlam years, one of which is that the powerful can never be ...

Indonesian conservatives are rewriting the 32-year history of the late second president Soeharto, a former army general, champion of corruption and destroyer of democracy. They want him promoted to ...

Matthew Bowes is a Senior Associate in Grattan’s Housing and Economic Security Program. He has previously worked at the Parliamentary Budget Office and Commonwealth Treasury in various roles analysing ...