LEADER 05000nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910462020203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-921719-46-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000210235 035 $a(EBL)932982 035 $a(OCoLC)795120468 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000679581 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12269101 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000679581 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10610285 035 $a(PQKB)11288186 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC932982 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL932982 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10601775 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000210235 100 $a20110517d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhitlam $b[electronic resource] /$fBrian Carroll 210 $aDural Delivery Centre, NSW $cRosenberg Pub.$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-921719-13-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Introduction; PART I: FROM CANBERRA SCHOOLBOY TO SYDNEY BARRISTER; Growing up in Canberra; Three times a leaver; Across a crowded room; Whitlam at war; A start to political activism; Quiz kid, family man, Sydney barrister; PART II: FROM 'YOUNG BROLGA' TO OPPOSITION LEADER; The 'young brolga' goes to Canberra; 'You ought to stand for deputy'; Battling Labor's 'faceless' and 'witless' men; 'I was provoked': The glass of water incident; Pushing to be leader; Towards the ultimate goal; Whitlam spits the dummy; A step towards The Lodge: the 1969 election; Now to 'reconstruct' Victoria 327 $aWhitlam just beats Nixon to China'Tiberius with a telephone'; No pillow talk, please; A long run-up to 'It's Time'; PART III: FROM TRIUMPH TO FRUSTRATION, 1972-74; The Duumvirate: Whitlam and Barnard's two-man government; An Opposition in disarray; Whitlam's hundred-day honeymoon; 'A political bungler of considerable eminence': Murphy 'raids' ASIO; Updating the British connection; 'Forthright and courageous': Tariffs cut by 25 per cent; Trouble in the economy. Blame Treasury! (and the Treasurer); 'Continental' replaces 'forward' defence 327 $aParramatta by-election: 'Political imbecility and political insanity'Artists for Whitlam: Whitlam for the Arts; 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; The voters say 'no' to prices and incomes powers; In pursuit of 'one vote one value'; Good works and bad vibes at Aboriginal Affairs; Independence for Papua New Guinea; The Gair Affair: Whitlam's cunning scheme backfires 327 $aEverybody out: 1974 double dissolution election'No! No! No! No!' Voters in 'No' mood to change the Constitution; PART IV: SECOND COMING; All in together: 1974 joint sitting; 1974 Budget: Treasury versus cabinet and Caucus; Murphy coaxes the Trade Practices Act into law; 'A kind of love': Jim Cairns and Junie Morosi; A party of junketeers'; A battle with a Tassie teacher over Baltic states; 'An act of political lunacy'. By-election in Bass; More dignity in divorce: the Family Court of Australia; The Loans Affair: Rex Connor's US4,000,000,000 shopping list 327 $a'We did not get out of ...Vietnam to get into a civil war in Timor'Dismissal day: 'Nothing will save the Governor-General'; Would the Senate have folded?; Was the Governor-General right?; 'Shame, Fraser, Shame' and' Turn on the Lights'; PART V: ENCORE IN OPPOSITION AND LIFE AFTER POLITICS; Encore in Opposition; Electors opt for a fistful of dollars; Life after politics; Suggested Reading (and Viewing); Acknowledgments; Illustration Sources; Index 330 $aGovernor-General Sir John Kerr's dismissal of the elected Whitlam Government in 1975, more or less at the behest of the Liberal-Country Party Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, was among the most momentous events in Australian political history. Born into a privileged life Whitlam joined the Australian Labor Party, rose to be its Parliamentary leader and took it into power after twenty-three years in the wilderness. But the pace of change scared too many people, and sudden changes in the world economic environment threw down challenges he just could not overcome. Nor could he overcome the local 606 $aPrime ministers$zAustralia$vBiography 606 $aSocial change$xPolitical aspects$zAustralia 607 $aAustralia$xPolitics and government$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPrime ministers 615 0$aSocial change$xPolitical aspects 676 $a320 700 $aCarroll$b Brian$f1930-$0969719 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462020203321 996 $aWhitlam$92203685 997 $aUNINA