In this Whitlam legacy paper, Elizabeth Reid revisits the feminist revolution of the Whitlam years and her place at the nexus of the women's liberation movement and the Whitlam Government.

In this publication, E.G. Whitlam Research Fellow, Dr Ben Huf, examines the the lasting impact of the Whitlam Government's urban and environmental policies to provide an alternative narrative to the economic dramas of crisis, reform and neoliberal globalisation that have dominated Australia's policy landscape over the last 40 years.

What was Australia like before the Whitlam Government? This paper explores that question by homing in on February 1967, the month that Gough Whitlam succeeded Arthur Calwell as Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party.

On 2 December 1972, Gough Whitlam led the Labor Party into government for the first time in 23 years with the most expansive agenda for change in modern Australian political history. In this paper, Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking examines how Whitlam took advantage of the energy of the time and used it to successfully revive...

This report makes policy recommendations designed to enhance children’s safety by bringing the Australian family law system into alignment with children’s rights. It illustrates its case for reform with the findings of a multiple case study project comprising seven in-depth interviews with adult survivors of family violence whose parents went to court when they were...