Whitlam - Carroll, Brian (Rosenberg Publishing, 2011)
Includes index
Introduction; PART I: FROM CANBERRA SCHOOLBOY TO SYDNEY BARRISTER; Growing up in Canberra; Three times a leaver; Across a crowded room; Whitlam at war; A start to political activism; Quiz kid, family man, Sydney barrister; PART II: FROM 'YOUNG BROLGA' TO OPPOSITION LEADER; The 'young brolga' goes to Canberra; 'You ought to stand for deputy'; Battling Labor's 'faceless' and 'witless' men; 'I was provoked': The glass of water incident; Pushing to be leader; Towards the ultimate goal; Whitlam spits the dummy; A step towards The Lodge: the 1969 election; Now to 'reconstruct' Victoria
Whitlam just beats Nixon to China'Tiberius with a telephone'; No pillow talk, please; A long run-up to 'It's Time'; PART III: FROM TRIUMPH TO FRUSTRATION, 1972-74; The Duumvirate: Whitlam and Barnard's two-man government; An Opposition in disarray; Whitlam's hundred-day honeymoon; 'A political bungler of considerable eminence': Murphy 'raids' ASIO; Updating the British connection; 'Forthright and courageous': Tariffs cut by 25 per cent; Trouble in the economy. Blame Treasury! (and the Treasurer); 'Continental' replaces 'forward' defence
Parramatta by-election: 'Political imbecility and political insanity'Artists for Whitlam: Whitlam for the Arts; Blue Poles: 1.3 million for the work of 'barefoot drunks'; Australia takes France to the International Court of Justice; A go-stop-go start for a new national anthem; Falling out with the rural vote; Struggling towards health reform; The voters say 'no' to prices and incomes powers; In pursuit of 'one vote one value'; Good works and bad vibes at Aboriginal Affairs; Independence for Papua New Guinea; The Gair Affair: Whitlam's cunning scheme backfires
Everybody out: 1974 double dissolution election'No! No! No! No!' Voters in 'No' mood to change the Constitution; PART IV: SECOND COMING; All in together: 1974 joint sitting; 1974 Budget: Treasury versus cabinet and Caucus; Murphy coaxes the Trade Practices Act into law; 'A kind of love': Jim Cairns and Junie Morosi; A party of junketeers'; A battle with a Tassie teacher over Baltic states; 'An act of political lunacy'. By-election in Bass; More dignity in divorce: the Family Court of Australia; The Loans Affair: Rex Connor's US4,000,000,000 shopping list