Whitlam by Carroll, Brian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction PART I - FROM CANBERRA SCHOOLBOY TO SYDNEY BARRISTER

Growing up in Canberra

A politically involved household A first experience of politicians

Three times a leaver

From Gough to Gough to Gough

Across a crowded room

Whitlam at war

Limping home on one engine Flying top brass

A start to political activism Quiz kid, family man, Sydney barrister

Doing what young couples did Cronulla politics

PART II - FROM ‘YOUNG BROLGA’ TO OPPOSITION LEADER

The ‘young brolga’ goes to Canberra

Internal divisions

‘You ought to stand for deputy’

‘An uneasy, but initially effective partnership’ Long-hairs and intellectuals ‘This truculent runt’

Battling Labor’s ‘faceless’ and ‘witless’ men

Photo opportunity ‘Twelve witless men’

‘I was provoked’: The glass of water incident Pushing to be leader Towards the ultimate goal

Enter Brian Harradine, exit Brian Harradine

Whitlam spits the dummy

… and only just gets it back

A step towards The Lodge: the 1969 election

1969 policy speech: ‘making and taking opportunities’

Now to ‘reconstruct’ Victoria

South Australia switches

Whitlam just beats Nixon to China

‘We have come to work’, not to see the Great Wall

‘Tiberius with a telephone’ No pillow talk, please A long run-up to ‘It’s Time’

‘Men and women of Australia’ Dirty tricks

PART III - FROM TRIUMPH TO FRUSTRATION, 1972–74

The Duumvirate: Whitlam and Barnard’s two-man government

Full ministry appointed

An Opposition in disarray

Country Party leaves the Coalition

Whitlam’s hundred-day honeymoon

Trouble with the United States Problems with the states Excess hurry backfires ‘A rare feeling of national self respect’

‘A political bungler of considerable eminence’: Murphy ‘raids’ ASIO

Liberal sympathy for Ustasha Yugoslav Prime Minister visits

Updating the British connection

Australia’s own honours system

‘Forthright and courageous’: Tariffs cut by 25 per cent Trouble in the economy. Blame Treasury! (and the Treasurer)

‘Stagflation’ First oil crisis ‘Too late, too severe, too long’

‘Continental’ replaces ‘forward’ defence

One Department of Defence ‘Continental’ replaces ‘forward’ Changes to North West Cape agreement All-volunteer army

Parramatta by-election: ‘Political imbecility and political insanity’ Artists for Whitlam: Whitlam for the Arts

Quick action and big budget boost Television and radio Film and television school Galleries, archives, museums

Blue Poles: $1.3 million for the work of ‘barefoot drunks’ Australia takes France to the International Court of Justice A go-stop-go start for a new national anthem Falling out with the rural vote Struggling towards health reform

Australian Medical Association leads resistance

The voters say ‘no’ to prices and incomes powers In pursuit of ‘one vote one value’

Senate rejects bill

Good works and bad vibes at Aboriginal Affairs

Land rights in the Northern Territory Redfern housing Wave Hill incident

Independence for Papua New Guinea

Whitlam sets target dates

The Gair Affair: Whitlam’s cunning scheme backfires

‘Night of the Long Prawns’

Everybody out: 1974 double dissolution election ‘No! No! No! No!’ Voters in ‘No’ mood to change the Constitution

Simultaneous elections Territory votes in referendums ‘Elected directly and democratically by the people’ Local government bodies

PART IV - SECOND COMING

All in together: 1974 joint sitting 1974 Budget: Treasury versus cabinet and Caucus

To the bitter end Crean is out, Cairns is in

Murphy coaxes the Trade Practices Act into law ‘A kind of love’: Jim Cairns and Junie Morosi ‘A party of junketeers’

Cyclone Tracey devastates Darwin Hobart bridge clanger Unhappy returns

A battle with a Tassie teacher over Baltic states

‘In the 1930s, they were all Fascist’ Asian-Balts from Vietnam

‘An act of political lunacy’. By-election in Bass More dignity in divorce: the Family Court of Australia

A false start for an over-anxious Murphy Irretrievable breakdown of marriage

The Loans Affair: Rex Connor’s US$4,000,000,000 shopping list

To achieve and maintain full ownership and control But what about the Constitution? Connor’s shopping list Loan authority revoked, loan authority renewed Khemlani speaks, Whitlam sacks Connor

‘We did not get out of … Vietnam to get into a civil war in Timor’

Balibo Five

Dismissal day: ‘Nothing will save the Governor-General’

The Governor-General and the Chief Justice A serious failure of communication Governor-General stalls

Would the Senate have folded?

Common talk Stalled, not rejected Pure mythology? The threat of a half-Senate election ‘This tainted Senate’ The double dissolution option

Was the Governor-General right?

Senate’s power to defer or reject Governor-General’s power to dismiss Was Kerr right in his ‘ambush’ of Whitlam

‘Shame, Fraser, Shame’ and ‘Turn on the Lights’

Archaic and unequal boundaries ‘Turn on the Lights’

PART V - ENCORE IN OPPOSITION AND LIFE AFTER POLITICS

Encore in Opposition

On the comeback trail Three successful referendum proposals For Fraser, ‘life wasn’t meant to be easy’

Electors opt for a fistful of dollars Life after politics Suggested Reading (and Viewing)

Some other books about Whitlam

Acknowledgments Illustration Sources Index

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