Here follows Daniel Mulino’s speech on Friday 28 August at the Victorian Trades Hall, hosted by the John Curtin Research Centre, followed by my reply.
It was a splendid to be with old and new friends at the launch of the book Whitlam Right and Wrong. Personal Reflections, with Dr
Review of Paul Strangio, The Alchemy of Leadership. Seven Australian Prime Ministers in a Turbulent Twenty-first Century, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2026, published in Tocsin,
Review Article: Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook & Joshua Black, editors, Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke Government, New South, Sydney, 2026. Published as slightly edited in
Who is he, the only man involved in the 2026 Adelaide Writers Week (AWW) imbroglio not turned to custard?
Welcome to Afternoon Light, the podcast of the Robert Menzies Institute by Georgina Downer.
No one looks great, fifty years after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government.
It was not long ago that Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was the hope of the Trump-admiring, MAGA-lite faction of the Liberal Party. Her campaign against the Voice referendum, her earthy wisdom and admirable life story, enthused the “after dark” crowd.
With a complacent title, published by admirers (the imprint Good Times Press is revealing), un-stocked in ‘leading’ bookstores, with word-of-mouth sales, this is the last of the memoirs of Hawke government ministers, published forty years after its election.