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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 6)

12 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 7

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 5 The Lost Archive: Government House Guest Books In 2010, I first requested access to the Government House guest books held by the Archives, which provide the details of […]

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 4)

10 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 4

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 3 Kerr always claimed that the decision to dismiss the Whitlam government was his alone, that the leader of the opposition, Malcolm Fraser, did not know and that he […]

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 3)

9 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 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act of dismissal, Kerr had breathed new life into the arcane reserve powers of the Crown once considered obsolete, superseded by the democratic fabric of […]

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 2)

8 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 1 After years of legal action, still absent from public view are crucial documents from a most contentious time in British imperial history: the 1947 and 1948 diaries covering […]

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 1)

7 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 3

By Jenny Hocking Abstract Gough Whitlam was deeply committed to the preservation of history, and keenly attuned to the importance of the documentary record in the writing of it. For Whitlam, the written record – […]

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The continual cover up – Jenny Hocking on the strange disappearance of Gough Whitlam’s ASIO file

5 January 2025 AIMN Editorial 9

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 […]

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