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- December 1, 1952: Werriwa Counting Nearly Complete
- March 19, 1953: Gough Whitlam’s Maiden Speech
- February 9, 1967: Newspapers Report Whitlam’s Election As ALP Leader
- June 9, 1967: Certainly, The Impotent Are Pure: Whitlam’s Speech To The Victorian ALP State Conference
- October 1, 1969: Whitlam’s 1969 Election Policy Speech
- March 8, 1971: The Malcolm Fraser We Once Knew
- October 13, 1971: Paul Jones And Whitlam’s Image
- November 13, 1972: When Labor Speaks, Who’s Really Talking?
- November 13, 1972: It’s Time: Audio, Video And Lyrics
- November 13, 1972: It’s Time: Whitlam’s 1972 Election Policy Speech
- November 25, 1972: It Is Time For A Change: The Australian’s First Editorial Supporting A Change Of Government
- November 27, 1972: Snedden, McMahon, Whitlam And Gair On The Campaign Trail
- December 1, 1972: The Party For The Times: The Australian’s Second Editorial Endorsing Whitlam
- December 2, 1972: Prime Minister William McMahon Concedes Defeat
- December 20, 1972: Whitlam’s First Address To The Nation As Prime Minister
- January 26, 1973: Australia Day 1973: Whitlam Announces Search For New Anthem
- February 12, 1973: The Adventures Of Edward Gough Whitlam: Smacka Fitzgibbon
- February 28, 1973: Voting Age Lowered to 18 – First Legislative Action of Whitlam Government
- July 1, 1973: Whitlam Labor’s First Six Months – An Assessment
- July 10, 1973: Whitlam’s Address To The ALP National Conference
- July 30, 1973: Foreign Policy: Whitlam’s Washington Address
- December 14, 1973: This Day Tonight Reviews 1973
- December 17, 1973: Blue Poles: Would You Pay $1.3m For This?
- March 12, 1974: Dear Prime Minister…
- April 2, 1974: Whitlam Questioned On Gair Appointment
- April 4, 1974: Liberal Party Announces It Will Block Supply; Whitlam Threatens Double Dissolution
- April 9, 1974: Amidst Gair Affair, Killen And Daly Debate The Appropriation Bill
- April 10, 1974: Whitlam Announces 1974 Double Dissolution Election
- April 11, 1974: Full Poll In May: Sun
- April 11, 1974: A Blow To Democracy: The Age
- April 11, 1974: Sir Paul Hasluck’s 1974 Proclamation Dissolving Parliament
- April 16, 1974: Address To The Nation: Gough Whitlam On Why The 1974 Election Was Called
- April 23, 1974: Bill Snedden’s Address To The Nation
- April 29, 1974: Whitlam’s 1974 Election Policy Speech
- April 30, 1974: Opposition Leader Billy Snedden’s 1974 Election Policy Speech
- May 3, 1974: An Unduly Pessimistic Nation Review
- May 13, 1974: Michael Pate ALP Advertisement: 1974 Federal Election
- May 18, 1974: 1974 Federal Election: The Election Night Count
- May 19, 1974: The Day After: 1974 Federal Election Radio Reports
- August 6, 1974: Historic Joint Sitting Of The Australian Parliament
- August 6, 1974: Joint Sitting Of Parliament: Whitlam’s Opening Speech
- August 15, 1974: Kerr’s First Letter to Sir Martin Charteris (Palace Letters)
- August 26, 1974: Whitlam’s National Broadcast On The Budget And Inflation
- September 1, 1974: Whitlam Comments On His Government’s Program
- September 2, 1974: The First Letter From Martin Charteris To Sir John Kerr (Palace Letters)
- September 17, 1974: Treasurer Frank Crean’s 1974 Budget Speech
- October 6, 1974: Whitlam Appears On NBC’s Meet The Press
- December 26, 1974: Darwin Wiped Out
- January 1, 1975: Whitlam’s 1975 ALP Membership Ticket
- February 6, 1975: Labor In Danger Of Losing Its Liberalism: Forell
- April 10, 1975: Whitlam Proposes Optional Preferential Voting
- April 19, 1975: Whitlam Would Make Australia A Republic: Joh
- April 26, 1975: Bjelke-Petersen Afraid Of Gestapo Agents
- May 13, 1975: Whitlam Tries To Speak Greek On 3ZZ
- May 13, 1975: Whitlam’s Report To The Nation On CHOGM And US Visit
- June 8, 1975: Alan Ramsey: Hawke The Squawk
- June 10, 1975: Whitlam’s Press Conference Following Ministerial Reshuffle
- June 11, 1975: $4000m Loan Letters
- June 13, 1975: The Australian: Let Us See The Khemlani Letter
- June 13, 1975: John Jost: Previewing The Bass By-Election
- June 13, 1975: Paul Kelly: Fraser Gets A Gift Shot
- June 13, 1975: Gallup Poll: Labor’s Vote Slumps
- June 18, 1975: Fraser Alleges Gerrymander
- June 27, 1975: PM, Teacher Clash At Bass Meeting
- June 28, 1975: Bass By-Election: Labor In Need Of A Miracle
- June 29, 1975: Sunday Observer: Get Out Gough
- June 30, 1975: Fraser: We’ll Win Any Federal Election Now
- June 30, 1975: Australian Editorial: Bass Thumps Whitlam
- June 30, 1975: Collette Cartoon: Bass By-Election
- July 1, 1975: Tanner Cartoon: Bass By-Election
- July 9, 1975: Parliament Recalled To Debate Loans Affair
- July 9, 1975: Loans Affair: Special One-Day Sitting
- July 11, 1975: PM’s Birthday Blast
- July 11, 1975: Bruce Petty Loans Affair Cartoon
- July 15, 1975: Whitlam’s Press Conference Following Cairns Sacking And Loans Affair Sitting
- August 1, 1975: Whitlam Promises To Drink More
- August 16, 1975: Gurindji Land Ceremony
- September 30, 1975: Whitlam Attends Funeral Of Jack Lang
- October 14, 1975: Ellicott Says The Governor-General Will Have To Dismiss Whitlam If Supply Is Blocked
- October 14, 1975: Rex Connor Resigns As Loans Affair Delivers Fraser’s “Reprehensible Circumstances”
- October 15, 1975: The Age: “Go now, go decently”
- October 15, 1975: Fraser Announces The Coalition Will Block Supply
- October 15, 1975: Whitlam Responds To Fraser’s Decision To Block Supply: Parliamentary Democracy Is Under Challenge
- October 15, 1975: Senator Withers Moves To Defer Passage Of The Supply Bills
- October 15, 1975: Palindromic Pro-Consul Speaks Out
- October 15, 1975: October 15, 1975: A Big and Dramatic Day In Australian Politics
- October 16, 1975: It’s Chaos! Canberra Deadlock
- October 16, 1975: It’s Government By Crisis
- October 16, 1975: Reporting The First Day Of The Constitutional Crisis
- October 16, 1975: The First Day Of The Constitutional Crisis
- October 19, 1975: Bob Ellicott Says Governor-General Has Power To Dismiss Whitlam
- October 19, 1975: Whitlam Maintains Attack On Opposition In Weekly TV Addresses
- October 19, 1975: Fraser Says Blocking Supply Is Justified By Economic Circumstances And Government Scandals
- October 21, 1975: Sir Robert Menzies Supports The Blocking Of Supply
- November 6, 1975: Five Days Before The Dismissal, Michael Willesee Interviews Gough Whitlam
- November 10, 1975: Sir Garfield Barwick’s Advice To Sir John Kerr
- November 11, 1975: On The Morning Of The Dismissal
- November 11, 1975: Sir John Kerr’s Letter Of Dismissal
- November 11, 1975: Kerr’s Statement Of Reasons
- November 11, 1975: Lunchtime On November 11: The Media Reacts To The Calling Of A Half Senate Election
- November 11, 1975: Fraser’s Acceptance Of A Caretaker Commission
- November 11, 1975: Whitlam Sacked: Front Page Of Adelaide News
- November 11, 1975: Kerr’s Proclamation Dissolving Parliament
- November 11, 1975: Gough Whitlam’s Post-Dismissal Press Conference
- November 12, 1975: Sir John Was Wrong: The Age
- November 12, 1975: Peter Bowers: Bulldog Becomes The Underdog
- November 12, 1975: Cutting The Knot: Sydney Morning Herald Editorial
- November 12, 1975: Vice-Regal Notice – November 11
- November 12, 1975: Selected Audio Clips From The Constitutional Crisis
- November 12, 1975: Speaker Scholes’ Letter To The Queen
- November 17, 1975: Letter From The Queen’s Private Secretary
- November 24, 1975: Whitlam’s 1975 Election Policy Speech
- November 26, 1975: Doug Anthony’s 1975 Country Party Policy Speech
- November 27, 1975: Malcolm Fraser’s 1975 Election Policy Speech
- December 10, 1975: The Sun: Snedden Cuts, Fraser No!
- December 10, 1975: Selected Audio Clips From The 1975 Election Campaign
- December 14, 1975: Sunday Observer: “Thank Bloody Christ”
- December 15, 1975: A Lack Of Communication?
- January 26, 1976: Kerr’s 1976 Australia Day Message
- September 1, 1976: Kerr Speaks Of The Queen And Young People
- September 9, 1976: The Death Of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
- November 11, 1976: It’s Time For A New Constitution
- February 8, 1977: Whitlam’s 10th Anniversary As ALP Leader
- July 19, 1977: Kerr’s Retirement in London (Palace Letters)
- November 1, 1977: Sir John Kerr Drunk At The Melbourne Cup
- November 17, 1977: Whitlam’s 1977 Election Policy Speech
- November 28, 1977: 1977 Federal Election: Whitlam Addresses ALP Election Rally At Moorabbin Town Hall
- November 30, 1977: Did The Earth Move For You Too, Dear…
- December 10, 1977: Whitlam Resigns The ALP Leadership Following Election Defeat
- December 10, 1977: Whitlam Concedes Defeat, Resigns Leadership
- February 9, 1978: Fraser Appoints Kerr Ambassador To UNESCO
- March 2, 1978: Kerr Quits UNESCO Ambassadorship; Fraser’s Parliamentary Statement
- April 28, 1978: Whitlam’s T.J. Ryan Memorial Lecture: “Reform During Recession – The Way Ahead”
- February 8, 1979: Whitlam Launches “The Truth Of The Matter”
- July 4, 1980: Whitlam And McClelland Speak At NSW Labor Lawyers Dinner
- November 11, 1980: Five Years After The Dismissal, Whitlam Speaks To Derryn Hinch
- September 1, 1983: Il Dismissale: Max Gillies On The Dismissal
- November 10, 1985: Ten Years On, Channel 9’s Sunday Program Remembers The Dismissal
- November 11, 1985: Whitlam Addresses The National Press Club On The Dismissal’s 10th Anniversary
- November 11, 1985: Whitlam Interviewed By Willesee On 10th Anniversary of The Dismissal
- November 11, 1985: Gough Whitlam Interviewed On The 10th Anniversary Of The Dismissal
- November 11, 1985: The National Remembers The Whitlam Dismissal And Talks To Albert Patrick Field
- November 11, 1985: Four Corners: 10th Anniversary Of The Dismissal
- November 15, 1985: Future Directions For Reform In Australia
- November 11, 1987: Sir John Kerr Breaks His Silence And Talks To Geoffrey Robertson
- July 30, 1990: Centenary Of Arbor Day
- March 25, 1991: Sir John Kerr Dies, 76
- April 9, 1991: Keating On Kerr
- April 28, 1991: Margaret Whitlam: The CIA Might Have Been Involved
- May 1, 1993: Whitlam’s Account Of November 11
- November 11, 1994: Australia Needs A New Flag
- November 8, 1995: Whitlam: The Coup Twenty Years After
- November 11, 1995: Twentieth Anniversary: Maintain Your Rage And Enthusiasm
- November 11, 1995: 20 Years On: Four Corners Remembers The Dismissal
- July 11, 1996: Howard Congratulates Whitlam On Turning 80
- February 9, 1997: Whitlam’s Address At The Opening Of The Trade Union Education Foundation
- July 8, 1997: Whitlam Comments On Barwick’s Letter To Kerr
- July 25, 1997: Whitlam Address To Murdoch University Student Law Society
- August 15, 1997: Gough Whitlam’s Eulogy For Lance Barnard: “My Oldest And Best Mate”
- December 3, 1997: Whitlam: A PM On PMs
- May 17, 1999: Whitlam’s Speech At The 175th Anniversary Of The Supreme Court Of NSW
- July 17, 1999: Kevin Newman, Former Fraser Minister, Dies, 65
- May 24, 2000: That Politicians Have Lost Their Sense Of Humour
- November 10, 2000: Brandis: Kerr “A Good And Decent Man Demonised”
- November 11, 2000: 25th Anniversary Of The Dismissal
- November 11, 2000: Some Effects And Interpretations Of The Whitlam Dismissal
- November 11, 2000: Opening The Dismissal Exhibition: Speech By Gough Whitlam
- November 11, 2000: Constitutional Changes After 1975
- March 10, 2001: Buckingham Palace Regrets
- May 8, 2001: Centenary Of ALP Caucus 1901-2001: Whitlam Speech
- November 1, 2001: Constitutional Conventions in Australia
- November 1, 2001: Casual Senate Vacancies And The Whitlam Government
- November 1, 2001: Choosing Governments in the Westminster System
- November 1, 2001: Key Questions Arising from the Whitlam Dismissal
- November 1, 2001: Out Of Empire: Monash University Course Notes
- January 5, 2002: Has Malcolm Changed?
- March 11, 2002: Whitlam On His Appointment Of Kerr
- July 11, 2002: Birthday Boy Proposes Major ALP Reforms
- October 31, 2002: Whitlam Says Kerr Needed Frequent Drying Out
- November 10, 2002: Whitlam In His Own Words
- December 2, 2002: The Relevance Of The Whitlam Government Today
- June 30, 2003: Maintain the Rag, A Celebration of the Whitlam Years
- October 12, 2003: Jim Cairns, Conscience Of Labor, Dies, 89
- July 24, 2004: Whitlam’s Message To The Liberal Party’s Killen Dinner
- August 6, 2004: Joint Sitting 30th Anniversary
- January 18, 2005: Whitlam’s Tribute To Mark Latham
- May 25, 2005: Graham Kennedy, The King, Dies, 71
- June 5, 2005: Philhellenes And Philologists: NSW Teachers Of Modern Greek
- November 11, 2005: Howard Defends Kerr
- November 11, 2005: The Dismissal – 30th Anniversary
- December 21, 2005: Cutler Advised Kerr To Warn Whitlam
- December 31, 2005: 1975 Cabinet Papers Released
- May 7, 2006: Richard Carleton, A Face From The Dismissal, Dies, 62
- July 11, 2006: Whitlam, Grand Old Man Of Australian Politics, Turns 90
- January 6, 2007: Santamaria’s Role In The Dismissal
- January 19, 2007: Gough Whitlam’s Eulogy For Sir James Killen
- February 2, 2007: Paul Jones, Creator Of ‘It’s Time’ Advertisement, Dies
- April 28, 2007: Gough and Margaret Whitlam Awarded ALP National Life Membership
- June 4, 2007: Tom Burns Dies, 75; Accompanied Whitlam On Historic China Visit
- July 11, 2007: Gough Whitlam, 91 Years Young
- October 13, 2007: Kim Beazley snr, Whitlam’s Education Minister, Dies, 90
- March 15, 2008: Hardman And Hater, Cameron Bows Out With Fire Still Burning
- January 2, 2010: Alexandra Hasluck: How One Strong Woman Changed The Course Of Australian History
- April 12, 2011: How The Queen Heard About Whitlam’s Dismissal
- March 17, 2012: Margaret Whitlam Dies, 92
- March 23, 2012: Parliamentary Tributes To Margaret Whitlam
- June 6, 2012: Malcolm Fraser’s Whitlam Oration
- August 24, 2012: Mason: The Third Man In Whitlam’s Downfall
- August 26, 2012: Whitlam Comments On Hocking’s Biography
- August 26, 2012: When Murdoch Fought Whitlam
- August 27, 2012: Mason Disputes Details But Largely Confirms Kerr’s Account Of Their Discussions
- February 24, 2013: Joan Child, First Female ALP Member Of House, First Female Speaker, Dies, 91
- July 11, 2013: Whitlam Turns 97
- September 24, 2013: A New World (for sure): The Labor Years 1972-75
- October 10, 2013: Whitlam Votes In ALP Leadership Election
- July 11, 2014: Whitlam Turns 98
- October 21, 2014: GOUGH WHITLAM DIES AT 98
- October 21, 2014: House Of Representatives Marks Death Of Gough Whitlam
- October 24, 2014: Abbott Announces Memorial Service For Gough Whitlam
- October 27, 2014: House Of Representatives Condolences For Gough Whitlam Continue
- October 27, 2014: Senate Condolences For Gough Whitlam
- October 28, 2014: House Of Representatives Condolences For Whitlam Conclude
