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Gough Whitlam

November 2023

  • Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong re-enact the famous picture of Gough Whitlam at the Echo Wall at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing

    Albanese and Wong evoke Whitlam in bid to defrost China relations

    Labor duo shrug off Arctic weather in Beijing to use re-enactment of their hero’s famous 1973 photo op to plot a new course out of the cold

December 2022

  • Paul Daley

    A handshake with Gough Whitlam and a divide between my parents that time couldn’t heal

    Paul Daley
    The election win 50 years ago delighted by father and angered my mother. Their politics were never reconciled yet they stayed together until my father’s death

September 2021

  • Staff of Chilean president Salvador Allende are held by soldiers outside the presidential palace during the coup d’etat on 11 September 1973.

    Declassified documents show Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende

    Former Liberal PM Billy McMahon approved spy agency request to conduct covert operations in Chile, a move later overturned by Gough Whitlam

August 2021

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June 2021

  • Gough Whitlam speaking on the steps of Parliament House, Canberra on the day of the Dismissal, 11 November 1975

    Government pledges $1.3m to restore Gough Whitlam’s home in Sydney’s west

  • Whitlam Reunion<br>Australian Prime Minister Whitlam Gough with his family who are meeting for the first time in ten years at the Berkeley hotel during a visit to London. Left to right, Antony, Catherine, Nicholas, daughter in law Sheena and her husband Stephen. Gough Whitlam is seated holding his grandson Alexander with wife Margaret Whitlam, 21st April 1973. (Photo by Douglas Miller/Keystone/Getty Images)

    When Gough Whitlam moved into my Cabramatta street, my life was transformed

    Christine Sykes

October 2020

  • Prince Charles in 1976

    Prince Charles's letter to John Kerr reportedly endorsing sacking of Whitlam condemned

    Historian Jenny Hocking and Australian Republican Movement say letter inappropriate
  • A broken seal is seen on a box containing letters between former Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace during the Kerr Palace Letters release event in Canberra, Australia, 14 July 2020.

    Letters of an insecure and indiscreet John Kerr make a mockery of the claim that the Queen played ‘no part’

    Jenny Hocking
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    Black Lives Matter protests, a Covid-19 outbreak and the 'link' that didn't exist

    Amanda Meade
  • First Dog on the Moon

    First Dog on the Moon
    The Palace Letters aka The Coup-rrespondence!

    First Dog on the Moon
  • Gough Whitlam addresses reporters outside Parliament House in Canberra after his dismissal on 11 November 1975.

    'Ring Buckingham Palace': a recollection from the Whitlam dismissal

    Ross Garnaut
  • The attorney general Christian Porter

    Christian Porter says governor general’s power to dismiss prime minister keeps ‘governments on their toes’

    Attorney general responds to release of palace letters, saying its contents give no ammunition to advocates for a republic
  • Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Australia in 1973 at the opening of the Sydney Opera House

    Words between Queen and PMs should remain private, palace says

  • a man puts a voting ballot in a plastic tub in Bougainville

    Palace letters: Queen's secretary compared Bougainville's bid for independence to Scotland

  • The dismissal ... November 11, 1975: Gough Whitlam looks on as John Kerr's official secretary, David Smith, announces that the governor general has dismissed the government and installed Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister

    John Kerr complained to Buckingham Palace of Gough Whitlam's 'malice' after dismissal

  • Gough Whitlam speaking on the steps of Parliament House, Parliament House, Canberra, 11 November 1975. The Dismissal.

    'Better for Her Majesty not to know': palace letters reveal Queen's role in sacking of Australian PM Whitlam

  • Full Story
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  • The palace letters amount to an act of interference in Australian democracy

    Katharine Murphy
  • Release of Buckingham Palace correspondence on dismissal of Australian government in 1975 – as it happened

  • Palace letters reveal what Queen knew about Australian PM Gough Whitlam's dismissal – video report

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