Books and Writing about Gough Whitlam
Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, by Jenny Hocking. Published in 2008 by Melbourne University Publishing
The Whitlam Government, by Gough Whitlam. Published in 1983 by Viking.
The following is a selection of newspaper and magazine articles, journal articles and books to introduce the work of E.G. Whitlam. It is designed to provide a selection of written works from the era of the Whitlam government to introduce students and interested researchers to the man, his work and to the era in which he was the dominant figure in Australian politics.
This bibliography provides a selection of articles from those who admired him but also lists a range of critical writings and ideas from conservative politicians and critics. In all cases we have sought to ensure that the articles are of significance either through the political or intellectual standing of their authors or because of the importance of the work in shaping public opinion or the politics of the time.
1. Newspaper and Magazine Articles
2. Articles in Journals and Books: An Introduction
Newspaper and Magazine Articles: A Selection
Anon. "The Men Who Would Be King." Courier-Mail, 12 December 1975: 5.
Anon. "The Whitlam Experiment (Series of Five Parts). Part 5: Whitlam Reflects on Whitlam." Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December 1982: 7-8.
Anon. "After Gough Goes, Who?" Rydge's 48 (September 1975): 10-11.
Anon. The Whitlam Years: Australia's Labor Legislation 1922-1975. Sydney: Reporter Newspaper, 1978.
Anderson, Peter. "Much to Say About Whitlam." Green Left Weekly 82 (December 1992): 9.
Bolkus, Nick. "Ten Years Since Whitlam Labor." Fabian Newsletter 24 (August 1985): 15-19.
Brown, Malcolm. "Whitlam's Fall: Conspiracy Theory Examined." Round Table 69 (October 1979): 365-370.
Bryant, Gordon M. "Don't Blame Whitlam, Blame the System." Quadrant 29 (January/February 1985): 103-105.
Buchanan, Rachel et al. "Dismissal, 11 November 1975." Age, 4 November 1995: Extra 1,3-4, 6-8.
Carew, Edna. "Foreign Banks Win Key Case: As Whitlam Takes the Rural to the Big Apple." Australian Financial Review, 5 October 1981: 1, 24.
Carlyon, Les. "The Whitlam Experiment (Series of Five Parts). Part 2: The Loan Affair is Inevitably the One Act by which the Whitlam Government is Judged." Sydney Morning Herald, 30 November 1982: 7.
Carr, Bob. "Whitlam Favors Change in Pre-selection: The ALP." Bulletin, 16 August 1983: 27-28.
Coombs, Anne. "Standing Tall." Ita 3 (February 12, 1992): 28-31.
Edwards, John. "Inside Gough Whitlam." Australian Financial Review, 30 May 1972: 2-3.
Evans, Gareth. "Lessons of the Whitlam Years." Fabian Newsletter 25 (February 1986): 18-23.
Farmer, Richard. "Life after Gough." Australian Magazine, 10-11 November 1990: 28+.
Ghosh, S. C. "Behind the Fall of Mr. Whitlam: Aims and Attitudes of the Liberal? NCP Opposition." Round Table 68(April 1978): 147- 155.
Henderson, Gerard. "Holy Cow, It's Holy Gough: (We Praise Thy Name) Time Again." Media Watch 24 (October/December 1992): 9-12.
Henderson, Gerard. "The Kerr Testimony." Australian, 30-31 January 1988: 17.
Johns, Brian. "Whitlam: The Man without a Faction." Bulletin, 11 December 1965: 17-21.
Kelly, Paul and Geraldine O'Brian. "The Whitlam Experiment (Series of Five Parts). Part 1: A Time of Boldness and Blunders." Sydney Morning Herald, 29 November 1982: 7, 9.
Kerr, John. "A Decade After the Dismissal." Bulletin, 3 September 1985: 66-73; 10 September 1985: 72-83; 17 September 1985: 64-68.
MacCallum, Mungo. "Fraser Bombs, But So Does Everyone Else." Review [Melbourne], 27 November - 3 December 1981: 3.
MacCallum, Mungo. "Fraser Fights on as the Tide Flows In." Review [Melbourne], 11-17 December 1981: 5.
Manne, Robert. "Legacy of the Revolution." Age, 29 November 1997: Saturday Extra (1), 4.
Markwell, Donald. "The Case for Kerr." Australian, 11-12 November 1995: 25.
McCarthy, Phillip. "Why Barwick Told Kerr to Move Early on Whitlam." National Times, 18-24 May 1980: 3-4.
McGregor, Craig. "Children of a Lesser God: Three Generations of the Whitlam Family." Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, 8 October 1988: 38-44.
Pilger, John. "Pilger: Why Whitlam Was Sacked." Australian, 30-31 January 1988: 19.
Ramsay, Alan. "Great Gough: Warts and Fall: Reflection on 20 Years of Whitlam Watching." National Times, 8-14 November, 1985: 20-21.
Ramsey, Alan. "Great Gough: Warts and Fall." National Times, 8-14 November 1985: 20-21.
Reid, Alan D. The Whitlam Venture. Melbourne: Hill of Content, 1986.
Reid, Alan. "Prime Ministers I Have Known." Bulletin, 19 February 1980: 58-63.
Reid, Alan. "Shock Poll Swing to Labor Undermines Fraser." Bulletin, 14 August 1979: 24.
Samuel Peter. "Was It a Whitlam Plot?" Bulletin, November 22, 1975 p. 18.
Samuel, Peter. "From the People Who Gave You Ben Chifley ... The First Whitlam Government." Bulletin, December9, 1972, pp. 22-24.
Santamaria, B. A. "Whitlam, History or Mythology." News Weekly, 28 March 1992: 6-7.
Scarrabelotti, Gary. "Whitlam Accuses ACR and CCJP over Timor Allegations: 'Defamatory Document' on Australia's Part in the Invasion by Indonesia." Catholic Weekly, 23 May 1982 : 2.
Schacht, Chris. "Labor's Modern Pioneers: From Whitlam and Dunstan Came Australia's Main Political Force." Australian, 26-27 September 1987: 20.
Seth, S. P. "Whitlam's S.E. Asian Safari." China Report 10 (1974): 29-31.
Shackelton, Shirley. "Whitlam and the Timor Debate: Truth Buried with the Bodies." Bulletin, 20 April 1982: 96, 100-101.
Singer, Peter. "The Whitlam Experiment (Series of Five Parts). Part 3: The Left Lowers Its Sight and Plays it Safe." Sydney Morning Herald, 1 December 1982: 7.
Smith, David. "1975, At Last the Myths Are Laid to Rest." News Weekly, 7 December 1991: 15-18.
Steketee, Mike. "The Whitlam Experiment (Series of Five Parts). Part 4: The Way It Was...." Sydney Morning Herald, 2 December 1982: 7.
Stekette, Mike et al. "The Dismissal: 20th Anniversary." Australian, 11-12 November 1995: Supp. 1-4.
Tenenbaum, Linda. "The Lessons of the Canberra Coup." Workers News, 10 November 1989: 10-11; 17 November 1989: 12-13; 24 November 1989: 10-11; 1 December 1989: 12-13; 15 December 1989: 18-19.
Tingle, Laura. "After Three Years the Task Becomes Harder for Whitlam and the State Bank." Australian Financial Review, 4 September 1984: 13.
Toohey, Brian and Van Atta, Dale. "New Light on CIA Role in 1975." National Times, 21-27 March 1982: 12, 14-17.
Webster, Paul. "Edward Gough Whitlam: Australian of the Year." Australian, 1 January 1973: 7.
Westfold, K.C. "Research Funding:The Whitlam Debacle." Search 16 (August/September 1985): 179-182.
Whitton, Evan. "The Spy Trade." Sydney Morning Herald, 26 January 1983: 7; 27 January 1983: 7; 28 January 1983: 7.
Wran, Neville. "The Constitution and Australian Democracy: Reflections on the Whitlam Government." Wiser 2 (October 1995): 12-16
Articles in Journals and Books: A Selection
"Abdication of Prime Minister Whitlam." Intelligence Survey 24 (September 1974): 1, 8.
Alexander, Frederick. "The Whitlam Era." In Australia Since Federation: A Narrative and Critical Analysis. 3rded. Melbourne: Nelson, 1976, pp.284-333.
Allan, Lyle. "The Whitlam Industry: Romance and Labor in Government." Recorder 148 (October 1987): 12-15.
Anderson, Bill. "Why Did So Many People See Their Interests as Threatened by the Whitlam Government?" Queensland Historical Review 7 (1978): 48-57.
Beilharz, Pater. "Whitlam Revisited?" Labour History 63 (November 1992): 174-176.
Bull, Hedley. "The Whitlam Government's Perception of Our Role in the World". In Advance Australia--Where? Edited by Brian D. Beddie. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1975, pp. 29-43.
Colebatch, Hal. "Getting at Gough through Supertonk." Politics 8 (May 1973): 141-143.
Connor, M.C. "The Steak of the Matter." Quadrant 40 (June 1996): 41-43.
Dennison, Monica. "Social Constraints for Social Work: The Influence of the Whitlam Years." Australian Association of Social Workers National Conference Proceedings 21 (1989): 17-20.
Duncan, Graeme. "Whitlam and the Problems of Social Democracy." Meanjin 45 (December 1986): 469-478.
Fitzgerald, Alan. "Labour's Whitlam Fashioning a New Posture for Australia." International Perspectives(May/June 1973): 30-34.
Forward, Roy. "Ministerial Staff under Whitlam and Fraser." Australian Journal of Public Administration 36 (June1977): 159- 167. .
Galligan, Brian J. "The Kerr-Whitlam Debate and the Principles of the Australian Constitution." Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 18 (November 1980): 247-271.
George, Jennie. "The Lessons of the Whitlam Government." In Snapshots of Hope: The Making of Modern Labor: A Decade Landmark. Edited by Gary Jungworth. Sydney: Pluto Press, 1997, pp. 153-160.
Hagan, Jim. "Trade Unions and Labor Governments: Chifley and Whitlam." In Traditions for Reform in New South Wales: Labor History Essays. Sydney: Pluto Press, 1987, pp. 79-100.
Harries, Owen. "Mr. Whitlam and Australian Foreign Policy." Quadrant 21 (August 1977): 55-64.
Hawker, Geoffrey N. "The Bureaucracy under the Whitlam Government and Vice Versa." Politics 10 (May 1975) pp. 15-23.
Keating, Paul. "Traditions of Labor in Power: Whitlam and Hawke in the Continum." In Traditions for Reform in New South Wales: Labor History Essays. Sydney: Pluto Press, 1987, pp. 172-186.
Keating, Paul. "The Labor Years: Economic Progress, Social Reform: A Mark of Four Prime Ministers." Government in Focus 3 (February 1986): 4-5.
King, Peter. "Whither Whitlam?" International Journal 29 (Summer 1974): 422-440.
Kirby, Michael D. Whitlam as Law Reformer. Sydney: Law Reform Commission, 1979
Markwell, Don. "The Dismissal: Why Whitlam was to Blame." Quadrant 28 (March 1984): 11-21.
McAdam, Anthony. "The Kerr, Whitlam, Hawke, CIA Show: The Watchman." Quadrant 27 (March 1983): 48-51.
McGregor, Craig. "The Whitlam Era." The Australian People. Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980: 210-217.
Millar, Thomas B. "From Whitlam to Fraser." Foreign Affairs 55 (July 1977): 854-872.
Nelson, Peter. "The Whitlam Years: Australia's Foreign Policy 1972/1975." Cabbages and Kings 16 (1988): 13-23.
O'Brien, D. Patrick. "The Whitlam Years: An Alternative History." In The New Conservatism in Australia. Edited by Robert Manne. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 141-160.DU117.17 .N48 1982
Oakes, Laurie. "The Years of Preparation." In Whitlam and Frost. Edited by David Frost. London: Sundial, 1974,pp. 1-15.
Paul, J.B. "The Apologia of Alcibiades: The Whitlam Government, 1972/1975." Quadrant 30 (March 1986): 67-72.
Peachment, Allan. "Experiments in Decision-Making: The Whitlam Legacy." Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 12 (November 1976): 273-285.
Sawer, Geoffrey. "The Whitlam Revolution in Australian Federalism: Promise, Possibilities and Performance." Melbourne University Law Review 10 (June 1976): 315-329.
Smith, David. "Setting the Record Straight." In Power, Parliament and the People. Edited by Michael Coper and George Williams. Sydney: Federation Press, 1997, pp. 173-179.
St. John, Edward. "The Dismissal of the Whitlam Government." Quadrant 20 (September 1976): 63-69.
Suter, Keith D. "Gough Whitlam's Impact on Australia." Contemporary Review 226 (May 1975): 225-230.
Walter, James A. "Language and Habits of Thought: Biographical Notes on E. G. Whitlam." Biography 4 (1981):17-44.
Watson, Bruce. "Wit and Politics: A Study of Whitlam and Menzies." Melbourne Journal of Politics 13 (1981):32-44.
Weller, Patrick M., and Smith, R. F. I. "The Rise and Fall of Whitlam Labor: The Political Context of the 1975 Elections." In Australia at the Polls: The National Elections of 1975. Edited by Howard R. Penniman. Washington:American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1977, pp. 49-76.
Whitlam E. G. Australian Foreign Policy 1963. Melbourne: Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1963.
Whitlam, E. G. "People and Power: Community Participation in Federal Government." Australian Quarterly 47(June 1975): 36-43.
Whitlam, G. "The Coup, Twenty Years On." Wiser 2 (October 1995): 6-11.
Books
Freudenberg, Graham. A Certain Grandeur: Gough Whitlam in Politics. South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1977.
Hocking, Jenny. Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History Vol 1. Melbourne University Publishing, 2008.
Kelly, Paul. The Unmaking of Gough. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1976.
Oakes, Laurie, and Soloman, David H. The Making of an Australian Prime Minister. Melbourne: Cheshire, 1973.
Oakes, Laurie, Farmer, Richard, and MacCallum, Mungo. Whitlam and Frost: The Full Text of Their TV Conversations Plus Exclusive New Interviews. London: Sundial, 1974.
Oakes, Laurie. Crash Through or Crash: The Unmaking of a Prime Minister. Melbourne: Drummond, 1976.
Oakes, Laurie. Whitlam PM: A Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1973.
Patience, Allan, and Head, Brian W., eds. From Whitlam to Fraser: Reform and Reaction in Australian Politics.Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Walter, James A. The Leader: A Political Biography of Gough Whitlam. Brisbane: University of QueenslandPress, 1980.
Wells, Deane. The Wit of Whitlam. Melbourne: Outback Press, 1976.
Whitlam, E. G. Australia's Foreign Policy: New Directions New Definitions. Canberra: Australian Institute ofInternational Affairs, 1973.
Whitlam, E. G. Australia-Base or Bridge? Sydney: Sydney University Fabian Society, 1966.
Whitlam, E. G. Beyond Vietnam: Australia's Regional Responsibility.Melbourne: Victorian Fabian Society,1968.
Whitlam, E. G. Labor in Power: What Is the Difference. Melbourne: Victorian Fabian Society, 1972.
Whitlam, E. G. The Truth of the Matter. Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1979.
Whitlam, E. G. The Whitlam Government, 1972-1975. Melbourne: Viking, 1983.
Whitlam, E. G. The Wit of Whitlam. Melbourne: Outback Press, 1976.
Whitlam, E.G. Abiding Interest. University of Queensland Press, 1997.
Whitlam, Margaret E. My Day. Sydney: Collins, 1974.
Whitlam, Margaret E. My Other World: Allen & Unwin, 2001
Academic Studies
Walter, James A. "E. G. Whitlam: An Essay in Political Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Melbourne,1979.
