A picture showing the covers of six books regarding the life and government of former Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam.

I believe my Gough Whitlam reading list is somewhat complete. Time to settle down with a wee dram and have a good read 📚🥃😊

(PS: I also have "The Dismissal" by Kelly & Bramston as well as John Kerr's "Matters for Judgement")

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Best of 2025 - Working with PM Fraser - the changeover - Part 1 John Menadue stayed on as the most senior public servant in the land, after the trauma of the Dismissal. In this 5-part series he details what life was like working with PM Fraser. Given his closeness to Whitlam, some of his conclusions are surprising.

I had a strong sense that I didn’t belong. But I didn’t feel perturbed as perhaps I expected. Belonging was no longer so important. It was transforming to realise that if push came to shove, I could survive as an outsider...JM #auspol #MalcolmFraser #theDismissal

Best of 2025 - What Washington really thought of Whitlam before the dismissal The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to block access to critical documents that might shed light on the shenanigans.

Best of 2025: The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to block access to critical documents that might shed further light on the shenanigans going on. #auspol #Whitlam #theDismissal

Best of 2025 - The second Dismissal – the loans affair and meetings with Kerr The second part in a series of first-hand accounts of the Dismissal, from the man who was there: John Menadue.

The Dismissal pushed me more to the left politically. I had been too trusting of the powerful and wealthy. I saw first hand that a governor-general, justices of the High Court and subsequently the Queen and her advisers were untrustworthy. JM #Auspol #theDismissal #Whitlam

Letter by then-Prince Charles to Sir John Kerr, praising him for sacking the democratically-elected AUS PM Gough Whitlam in 1975.

As an Australian, I just realised there must've been a Christmas Day 2025 address by King Charles. Didn't watch. Don't care. (Charles praised Sir John Kerr for sacking our democratically elected AUS PM Gough Whitlam in 1975.) #TheDismissal #RepublicNow #AbolishTheMonarchy #HappyChristmas 🎄 #auspol

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Attached is a short read from Professor Jenny Hocking, the person whose unrelenting work on The Dismissal led to the release of the ‘Palace Letters’ (amongst other things).

The article is worth a read.

#Auspol #TheDismissal #Whitlam #Kerr #Fraser […]

Personally respected Fraser for his attitude to multicultural but that for me never overcame my disgust for his a xing of Medibank which as universal system,was never replaced.Also #TheDismissal. Shd've heard Don Chipp re Fraser🫨

Denouement: trapped between empires - Part 6 “What you in Australia must understand is that you are more to blame than the CIA. You want this to happen, you want a certain administration in control, and you don’t want another administration in control. Do the loyalties of your intelligence services lie with your country as a whole or with the establishment in your country? In most instances, the answer you find is with the establishment.” Victor Marchetti, former CIA officer and deputy director at Pine Gap.

The Dismissal at 50 In part six of our series, Jon Stanford explores how palace intrigue, US interference and establishment pressure shaped the dismissal of the Whitlam government. #auspol #thedismissal #whitlam

Working with PM Fraser - a country divided - Part 3 John Menadue stayed on as the most senior public servant in the land, after the trauma of the Dismissal. In this 5-part series he details what life was like working with PM Fraser. Given his closeness to Whitlam, some of his conclusions are surprising.

John Menadue stayed on as the most senior public servant in the land, after the trauma of the Dismissal. He details what life was like working with PM #Fraser. Given his closeness to #Whitlam, some of his conclusions are surprising. #auspol #johnmenadue #theDismissal

From Whitlam to AUKUS: Sovereignty silenced When governor-general Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, Australia lost more than a government. It lost a measure of its independence a loss that still shadows our politics half a century later.

The Whitlam experiment ended abruptly, but its vision endures: that a middle power could stand on its own feet, speak with its own voice and act according to its own conscience. #auspol #theDismissal #GoughWhitlam #Kerr

Working with PM Fraser - the changeover - Part 1 John Menadue stayed on as the most senior public servant in the land, after the trauma of the Dismissal. In this 5-part series he details what life was like working with PM Fraser. Given his closeness to Whitlam, some of his conclusions are surprising.

I had a strong sense that I didn’t belong. But I didn’t feel perturbed as perhaps I expected. Belonging was no longer so important. It was transforming to realise that if push came to shove, I could survive as an outsider...JM #auspol #MalcolmFraser #theDismissal

‘My Viceroy’ - Part 5 I thought it no bad thing that the public in Australia and, perhaps, also those in other monarchical Commonwealth countries, not excluding Britain, should have been reminded that the Crown possessed reserve powers.”  Sir John Kerr to the British High Commissioner to Australia, December 1975.

#Whitlam could have refused to accept #Kerr’s determination and returned to Parliament to confirm he retained the confidence of the House of Representatives. He could have sought a judgement from the High Court. He did neither. #auspol #theDismissal

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Swept up into the seismic drama of Nov 11 1975 was a 23 year old Age reporter Sally Gibson.

Today she tells her fascinating behind the scenes story to the “Truth Lies & Media” podcast💥

On Apple & Spotify

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Trump, Fox News and Sky News pump out hard right, toxic and dangerous disinformation daily.
Why is the BBC self flagellating over a minor editing error?

Plus the media and The Dismissal ..

"Truth Lies & Media" has just dropped!💥

Apple & Spotify 🎙️

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Fifty Years Ago, the US Staged a Coup in Australia The 1975 “dismissal” of Australian Labor PM Gough Whitlam is often seen as a constitutional crisis initiated by an old British-led establishment. In reality, it was a bloodless analog of other US-orch...

“Fifty Years Ago, the US Staged a Coup in Australia
The 1975 “dismissal” of Australian Labor PM #GoughWhitlam… was a bloodless analog of other US-orchestrated coups against reforming left governments”
#auspol #Whitlam #TheDismissal #WhitlamDismissal #PineGap
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This is the Savva interview we saw at #TheDismissal gig on Tuesday at MoAD. Serious in parts, but also eye-popping and hilarious. He's getting old, but it's still vintage PJK. ❤️
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The sacking that stopped a nation -it was The Age and Melb Herald that lit the fuse revealing Whitlam Ministers were secretly chasing billions from a dodgy loans broker by the name of Khemlani

“Truth Lies & Media” has just dropped!💥

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One of yesterday's best panel discussions at #TheDismissal was with Kerr's Aide De Camp and the 3 men who were there to be 'interviewed' for his replacement. Hilarious, with all the comings and goings and drama at Government House that lunchtime. Anyhoo, I noticed 2 of the current Aides De Camp […]

This House & Garden cover is from October 1975—just a month before Whitlam’s dismissal. Bright colours, optimism, and the suburban dream… while Australian politics was about to flip upside down.

Secret Design Studio Archives

#Whitlam #TheDismissal #1970sAustralia #MidCenturyAustralia

‘Spooky fiddling’: Preparing the ground – Part 3 There is profoundly increasing evidence that foreign espionage and intelligence activities are being practised in Australia on a wide scale… I believe the evidence is so grave and so alarming in its implications that it demands the fullest explanation. The deception over the CIA and the activities of foreign installations on our soil… are an onslaught on Australia's sovereignty. – Gough Whitlam, House of Representatives, 1977

ASIS worked very closely with Britain’s MI6 at this time, to the extent of being a virtual branch of the British service. The two services shared offices in Asia and sometimes represented each other in stations in the region. #theDismissal #Whitlam #Kerr #auspol

The Dismissal was a calculated conservative plot: Albanese 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 power.

Anthony Albanese says: "The Dismissal was a calculated plot, hatched by conservative forces which sacrificed conventions and institutions in the pursuit of power." @albomp #auspol #theDismissal

A little the worse for wear after a very big day yesterday at #TheDismissal. Couldn't sleep, a bit overwhelmed with the yugeness of the event, all the famous faces.... and the FIFTY years (really?? I still feel 20 in my head). Off to landcare on this beautiful morning then maybe home for a nap.

What Washington really thought of Whitlam before the dismissal The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to block access to critical documents that might shed light on the shenanigans.

The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to block access to critical documents that might shed further light on the shenanigans going on. #auspol #Whitlam #theDismissal

The Dismissal was a calculated conservative plot: Albanese 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 p...

Albo notes that passionate interest in #TheDismissal "points to the stature and significance of the government and the prime minister it brought down."

If only he saw that "stature and significance" as a role model for himself. #auspol
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The day that was. Earlier start. Coffee. FaceTime call with client. Work (WFH). Lunch. To #HotDesk. More work. Read RSS. Blog posts. Two hour walk. Tea. Stream doco re #TheDismissal since it was fifty years ago today. Read. To come: lights out #OnlineJournal

Bankcard Welcome Here sign at Julia Creel railway station

Well it has been 1975 all day today in national capital, and millenials have suddenly heard of the Dismissal.
What they fail to appreciate is that it has actually been 1975 since 1975 in Canberra.

Meanwhile, way up in the Deep North they're not having that […]

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🚨 50 yrs after the dismissal of Gough Whitlam: when he very publicly called the pro-Israel lobby’s influence “blackmail” in 1973. Today Gaza shows the same pattern.
👇 Link in first reply for deep dive.
#GoughWhitlam #TheDismissal #YomKippur1973 #LobbyPower #Gaza #Auspol #Israellobby

This 🧵

"No Labor govt since [ #TheDismissal] has dared to have a suite of policies as progressive"

The do-nothing Albanese govt presides over an increasingly REgressive status quo.

Poverty, housing stress, poorer health and educational outcomes for many. Greater wealth & privilege for the few.

I wonder if Princess Anne has picked up on her telly the dubious role of her mother and brother in this huge over-reach of power #thedismissal

I don't listen to many podcasts but I did listen to a fabulous one on the ABC Listen app awhile ago about this. It pretty much said exactly that. And there's a reason why the archives won't release the rest of the documentation. How bad must it be? #TheDismissal