Politics
My Kangaroo Island
The looks of excitement on our faces was sure evidence that Mr Borham’s idea was met with class approval. It was 1966. Trevor Borham was our class teacher at the Parndana Area School on Kangaroo […]
Australian history
Politics
Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 5)
By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 4 On the afternoon of 11 November 1975, Kerr revealed that he had secretly met with the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Sir Garfield Barwick, the […]
Politics
Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 3)
By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 2 Through that single act of dismissal, Kerr had breathed new life into the arcane reserve powers of the Crown once considered obsolete, superseded by the democratic fabric of […]
Politics
The continual cover up – Jenny Hocking on the strange disappearance of Gough Whitlam’s ASIO file
By Jenny Hocking And it is not just Gough Whitlam’s ASIO file that has been “culled” by the National Archives of Australia. The relevant Government House Guest Books at the time of the Dismissal have […]