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Politics, pressure and protest - ABC listen
8 months ago

Politics, pressure and protest - ABC listen

ABC  

Alex Barwick: What did you all do at school today? Alex Barwick : That’s Brian Toohey, who was working out of a shoebox office for the man who would become Whitlam’s Defence Minister, Lance Barnard. Alex Barwick : Step one for the incoming PM; Whitlam would get a briefing from his Defence Department, and a key agenda item was the …

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Expanse podcast series explores Pine Gap and America's Spies in the Outback
8 months ago

Expanse podcast series explores Pine Gap and America's Spies in the Outback

ABC  

Spies in the Outback is the third series of the Expanse podcast. "Pine Gap was certainly one of those ground sites that was collecting information on weapon systems, where were the weapons located," David says. "Pine Gap became extremely important in the age of drone warfare in helping to find the targets," Richard Tanter, Pine Gap expert from Melbourne University, …

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Anthony Albanese invites Xi Jinping to Australia after landmark summit at Beijing's Great Hall of the People
1 year, 1 month ago

Anthony Albanese invites Xi Jinping to Australia after landmark summit at Beijing's Great Hall of the People

ABC  

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Australia during a "very successful" meeting in Beijing. Key points: Anthony Albanese is the first Australian leader to visit China in 7 years Mr Albanese said the discussion with Xi Jinping was "one of goodwill" There was high level discussion about trade and the global economy Mr Albanese …

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Anthony Albanese's meeting with Xi Jinping hints at China's new approach, but not everything is changing
2 years, 1 month ago

Anthony Albanese's meeting with Xi Jinping hints at China's new approach, but not everything is changing

ABC  

In retrospect, there were various signposts pointing to Chinese President Xi Jinping's ice-breaking meeting with Anthony Albanese in Bali on Tuesday. This was one of that government's earliest acts, following Gough Whitlam's ground-breaking visit to China as opposition leader and preceding a 1973 prime ministerial trip. While we look to better times with China, Australia's defence preparations — which include …

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Australia’s PM says referendum on republic not his priority
2 years, 3 months ago

Australia’s PM says referendum on republic not his priority

Associated Press  

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who had started laying the groundwork for an Australian republic after elections in May, said Sunday that now was the time not for a change but for paying tribute to the life of Queen Elizabeth II. Her eldest son, King Charles III, was officially proclaimed Australia’s head of state Sunday by the …

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How has Australia dealt with China in the past and what does this mean for today?
2 years, 3 months ago

How has Australia dealt with China in the past and what does this mean for today?

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"China has lived without Australia for thousands of years and could no doubt do so again." As Professor Curran sums up in his book: "Whitlam was determined to break down the Cold War fear and animosity that had gripped the national psychology on China for the preceding two decades". Bob Hawke: From close friends to a brutal massacre In his …

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Australia’s next prime minister came from humble beginnings
2 years, 7 months ago

Australia’s next prime minister came from humble beginnings

Associated Press  

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia. “It says a lot about our great country that a son of a single mom who was a disability pensioner, who grew up in …

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Australia's next Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came from humble beginnings
2 years, 7 months ago

Australia's next Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came from humble beginnings

The Hindu  

Australia's Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia. "It says a lot about our great country that a son of a single mom who was a disability pensioner, who grew up in public housing down …

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United Australia Party volunteer 'banned from polling booth' after altercation over poster
2 years, 7 months ago

United Australia Party volunteer 'banned from polling booth' after altercation over poster

ABC  

A United Australia Party volunteer says she has been banned from polling booths across the Illawarra region in New South Wales after police received reports she made violent threats over campaign advertising. Key points: Police were called to a Dapto polling booth after receiving reports of a volunteer threatening violence against others United Australia Party volunteer Gaylene denied making death …

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Britain’s Prince Charles wrote to support historic Australian PM sacking: media
4 years, 2 months ago

Britain’s Prince Charles wrote to support historic Australian PM sacking: media

Live Mint  

Britain's Prince Charles sent a hand-written letter of support to Australia's governor general in 1976, backing his controversial sacking of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, local media reported on Saturday. The letter, published on Saturday by The Australian newspaper, is dated four months after Queen Elizabeth's representative in Australia, John Kerr, took the unprecedented step to dismiss Whitlam without first warning …

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Palace Letters reveal Queen briefed on tensions post-Cyclone Tracy
4 years, 5 months ago

Palace Letters reveal Queen briefed on tensions post-Cyclone Tracy

ABC  

Queen Elizabeth II was secretly warned about rising tensions in a northern Australian town levelled by a cyclone in 1974, newly released letters to Buckingham Palace have revealed. Key points: Newly released letters show Queen Elizabeth's "close interest" in Darwin's destruction Sir John Kerr told Queen of growing tensions between the NT and Commonwealth governments Historian Jenny Hocking says Cyclone …

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Palace letters make great reading but leave a republic as far away as ever
4 years, 5 months ago

Palace letters make great reading but leave a republic as far away as ever

ABC  

In the midst of our present crisis, this week's release of the Palace letters has taken us back to the debate about another crisis, massive at the time and of lasting significance but rather put into perspective by COVID-19. Charteris told Kerr the governor-general's reserve powers did exist, despite claims to the contrary, but "it is only at the very …

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After reading the palace letters, some are asking: Why do we have a Queen at all?
4 years, 5 months ago

After reading the palace letters, some are asking: Why do we have a Queen at all?

ABC  

It's certainly not the image of the Queen portrayed in the Netflix series, The Crown. Yet the secret palace letters, finally released 45 years after the event, confirm the Queen was not told by her representative in Australia about his decision to sack then-prime minister Gough Whitlam. The Queen's private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris had already advised Kerr that the …

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What the 'Palace letters' told us about the Queen's role in Gough Whitlam's dismissal
4 years, 5 months ago

What the 'Palace letters' told us about the Queen's role in Gough Whitlam's dismissal

ABC  

There's always a sense of mystique with anything to do with the Royals — an establishment which keeps most of its affairs well and truly locked away behind heavy, gilded doors. Palace was DEFINITELY interested but Queen was NOT told The letters show Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam before telling the Queen. The 211 letters exchanged between Sir John …

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'Palace letters' between Sir John Kerr, Queen released, revealing information about Gough Whitlam and 1975 constitutional crisis
4 years, 5 months ago

'Palace letters' between Sir John Kerr, Queen released, revealing information about Gough Whitlam and 1975 constitutional crisis

ABC  

The newly released 'Palace letters' have revealed then governor-general Sir John Kerr sacked the Whitlam government in 1975 without giving advance notice to the Queen, because "it was better for Her Majesty not to know". The released letters reveal, on the day of the dismissal — November 11, 1975 — Sir John alerted Buckingham Palace to his decision to sack …

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'Palace letters' to be released today are expected to shine light on what the Queen knew about the Whitlam dismissal
4 years, 5 months ago

'Palace letters' to be released today are expected to shine light on what the Queen knew about the Whitlam dismissal

ABC  

A missing link in Australia's political history — correspondence between the Queen and Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr in the lead up to the dismissal of the Whitlam government — will be released to the public today. Professor Hocking said she first became aware of the letters while trawling through Sir John's papers in the National Archives. June 6, 1975 …

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