Power, principle, politics; all three collided to expose the fragility of our democracy. Watch what led to November 11, 1975, and how it changed the way we operated.

The ghost of Gough Whitlam has faded from Australia's political history. There is a new era now, one that questions the ...

Keating, who had been appointed the minister for northern Australia just a fortnight before the events of November 11, 1975, ...

Democracy itself is anti-heroic. Progress does not come from the benevolence of a single messiah but from the collective operation of an impersonal system.

The Scotch whisky flowed plentifully as the entourage of Prime Minister Billy McMahon came to terms with electoral defeat in December 1972.

Nations that moved air traffic control out of politics have better tech, no shutdown chaos, and stable funding. Congress ...

In the US, the liberal arts and classical education movement has been under way for about 15 years. Now it’s coming to ...

After losing his job at a large investment firm, the former Liberal Party leader has turned for work to a small American ...

As prime minister, Whitlam changed the country in profound ways. 10 experts assess how the prime ministers since shape up as ...

With a bold reform agenda and occasional administrative chaos, Whitlam’s three-year government had, and continues to have, a profound effect on Australian life.

A foul-mouthed fantasist with a chin like an ironing board starts a wild conspiracy theory about the King’s brother.

Optus’s fatal network outage has exposed a governance crisis at the core of Australia’s triple-0 emergency service, revealing a system that is dangerously fragmented, paralysed by political deadlock, ...