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Carney and Gough may be total strangers in space-time, but have more in common than you might imagine

31 August 2026 Jon Chesterson 13

Carney’s my man – No-one in Australia has the balls or presence of mind to behave like a gentleman and statesman, since the [swine swelling Humpty Dumpty] Howard years, on either side of the house […]

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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 3

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act of dismissal, Kerr had breathed new life into the arcane reserve powers of the Crown once considered obsolete, superseded by the democratic fabric of […]

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Carney and Gough may be total strangers in space-time, but have more in common than you might imagine

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

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

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

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

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

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