What Washington really thought of Whitlam before the dismissal
The cloud of American involvement in the events of November 1975 is unlikely to ever clear. Especially while US presidential libraries continue to block access to critical documents that might shed light on the shenanigans.
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12 November 2025
The Dismissal was a calculated conservative plot: Albanese
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 power.
12 November 2025
‘Spooky fiddling’: Preparing the ground – Part 3
There is profoundly increasing evidence that foreign espionage and intelligence activities are being practised in Australia on a wide scale… I believe the evidence is so grave and so alarming in its implications that it demands the fullest explanation. The deception over the CIA and the activities of foreign installations on our soil… are an onslaught on Australia's sovereignty. – Gough Whitlam, House of Representatives, 1977
12 November 2025
The debate about net zero ignores the evidence
Those in the Coalition who are opposed to targeting net zero carbon emissions, argue that it will cost too much. But that claim is false and not supported by the evidence. How can they get away with it?
12 November 2025
Our lopsided and unfair tax system
There is something weird and unfair in a tax system that requires young and productive workers to subsidise the lifestyle of the old and idle.
12 November 2025
Looking back on Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day should be one on which thoughts turn to peace. Instead it tends to lead us in the opposite direction.
12 November 2025
The coming class war against Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani's win in New York City should be seen as a repudiation of everything the Democrats have been doing since the DNC shafted Bernie Sanders to get Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden nominated as the party’s presidential candidates in 2016 and 2020.
12 November 2025
Australia could be a world leader in tackling the climate emergency
My recent P&I article, “The world isn’t even trying to phase out fossil fuels”, explained why it is imperative that fossil fuels be rapidly phased out.
12 November 2025
Andrew Forrest says real zero is already the 'winning business case' in three key fossil fuel guzzling industries
As the federal Coalition continues its interminable internal debate over whether net zero emissions is even a thing, let alone a thing it can get behind, new reports have found that “real zero” is both technically feasible and economically preferable to its carbon-lite alternative in numerous hard-to-abate sectors.
12 November 2025
‘Absolutely pathetic’: Senate Democrats denounced for caving to GOP in shutdown fight
“Let’s be clear – this proposal isn’t a compromise, it’s a capitulation,” said one progressive lawmaker in the US House.
11 November 2025
The Second Dismissal
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 Victoria University of Technology, describe the chaos that led to two dismissals on 11 November.
11 November 2025
After Trump goes home
If anyone had any lingering doubts about the change in the world order, the sight of President Trump pumping his fist into the air at the doorway of Air Force One, before turning his back on Asia to fly home, they should be put to bed now.
11 November 2025
It’s Ley, or virtually certain Liberal self-immolation
People closer to the action than I are suggesting that the end is nigh for Sussan Ley. They may be right; momentum is often all in these matters.
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