Today’s article from @amyremeikis.bsky.social is both a good wrap up of where #AusPol currently stands areas full of so many quotes that I may as well have just copied the whole article (although it was hard, I limited myself to just one paragraph).

I did like her comparison to what #Whitlam achieved in three years compared to what #Albanese has achieved ( … has Albanese done *Anything* other than leave a smudge on the carpet? … dunno, I don’t think so).
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It doesn’t matter. The focus should be on the government, not the sideshow in the rearview mirror. Albanese is cementing a legacy of cautious, centrist incrementalism at a time when he could be making reforms that would make a material difference in people’s lives, addressing the inequality and stacked deck that has plagued Australians for the past 30 years.
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https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2026/02/14/liberal-leader-anthony-albanese-election

listening to an episode of the After America podcast from The Australia Institute, talking about the #Whitlam dismissal, and I remembered one of the odder experiences in my life, around 1995 I was renting a room in the house of a woman from an old Balmain Labor family, the phone rang and I answered it...

"Hello?"
"Hello, this is Gough Whitlam..."

Attached is a short read from Professor Jenny Hocking, the person whose unrelenting work on The Dismissal led to the release of the ‘Palace Letters’ (amongst other things).

The article is worth a read.

#Auspol #TheDismissal #Whitlam #Kerr #Fraser

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/the-dismissal-at-50-a-calculated-plot-an-ambush-a-coup/

Did the CIA help topple Gough Whitlam in 1975? Cameron Mitchell, better known as @Mr_M_History, digs into the Whitlam dismissal by Governor General John Kerr and the long running allegations of US interference. From Pine Gap and the Nugan Hand Bank to the channels linking Canberra and Washington, he lays out the case.
He also examines the roles of Malcolm Fraser, John Kerr, Bob Hawke, several High Court judges and the British Royal family through the palace letters saga. A clear look at one of Australias most dramatic political moments.

#australianpolitics #whitlam #history #cia #auspol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGuI_h7YVDY

The deliberate theft of free education by successive governments is one of the greatest acts of intergenerational theft in our history. I know, because I was one of the lucky ones who benefited from Whitlam's vision. We must restore it.

#FreeEducation #Whitlam #AusPol #LNPFail #EducationForAll #dumbingdown

https://theconversation.com/how-did-australian-universities-go-from-free-education-to-50-000-arts-degrees-in-50-years-268782

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ 1975 Australian constitutional crisis ✧

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November when Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as prime minister and appointed Malcolm Fraser, the opposition leader, as caretaker. The Whitlam government had been rocked by scandal...

#AustralianLaborParty #Kerr #Whitlam #ALP #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis

A comment from a post in which Gough Whitlam was referred to as a politician who "delivered so much for Australians who had felt overlooked for too long".

I mean, I'm not a fan of politicians... but whatever you want to say about Whitlam, he fucking PASSED some legislation.

#AusPol #Australia #GoughWhitlam #Whitlam

Remembering the day school children around Australia broke the news of the sacking of the Whitlam government by the Governor-General...

The announcement of the sacking by the Governor-General's secretary on the steps of old Parliament House was broadcast to all the children watching kids programmes after school. With no social media and most parents working, the children heard about the dismissal of the government first and told their parents when they got home. I remember running out to my parents with my younger brother shouting the news to them. Coincidentally, our car had broken down so my mother arrived in a tow truck pulling the car.

I was in primary school and old enough to understand how big this news was. At school for years afterwards my friends and I recalled this momentous occasion and how we told our parents.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-11/the-dismissal-50th-anniversary-photo/105958494

I started reading newspapers from a young age and remember reading Michelle Grattan's articles in The Age. Here are her recollections of The dismissal:
https://theconversation.com/politics-with-michelle-grattan-remembering-the-day-gough-whitlam-lost-his-job-269387

#OzHist #Whitlam #whitlam #Dismissal #Australia