Whitlam [[electronic resource] /] / Brian Carroll

• Autore: Carroll Brian <1930->
• Pubblicazione: Dural Delivery Centre, NSW, : Rosenberg Pub., 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 320
• Soggetto topico: Prime ministers - Australia; Social change - Political aspects - Australia
• Soggetto geografico: Australia Politics and government 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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 ; Whitlam 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 ; Parramatta 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 ; Everybody 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 ; '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
• Sommario/riassunto: Governor-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
• Titolo autorizzato: Whitlam
• ISBN: 1-921719-46-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462020203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II