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 ...

John Tilemann is a former Australian diplomat specialising in arms control and Asia-Pacific security affairs and an international civil servant with the International Atomic Energy Agency. He was ...

Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her research centres upon Australia’s colonial past and its legacies in the present. Her books include ...

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 ...

Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne A/Prof Milad Haghani is a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and the Geospatial ...

It beggars belief that the Queen did not know that John Kerr was planning to sack Gough Whitlam. She may not have known the detail of the coup in progress, but she knew the substance. But like Lord ...

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 ...

If you only skimmed the headlines from News Corp, you’d be forgiven for thinking China was launching a krill-powered naval strike from Antarctica, staging an electric vehicle blitzkrieg across the ...

When the Commonwealth Government reorganised its innovation responsibilities for the fourth time in a decade, public servants made jokes about updating their email signatures again. We recognise the ...

President Trump recently announced support for South Korea’s plans to build nuclear-powered submarines. This is a triumph for Korea’s new President Lee Jae Myung, generally regarded as less close to ...

Lecturer in Political Theory and Philosophy, Newcastle University I’m a political theorist at Newcastle University. Last year I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford’s Center for Ethics and before ...