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This is an audio recording of then ABC journalist Richard Carleton talking to Victorian Politics teachers in 1976.
It was the week the Iraqi loans affair hit the news and Gough Whitlam’s leadership of the ALP seemed in peril.
Carleton discussed politics and the media in the aftermath of the Dismissal. [Read more…]
This is an audio extract of interviews with Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Opposition Leader Bill Snedden on This Day Tonight.
The interviews were conducted by Richard Carleton.
This Day Tonight (TDT) was the ABC’s nightly current affairs program. It went to air at 7.30pm. [Read more…]
In its final program for the year, the ABC’s nightly current affairs show, This Day Tonight, referred to as TDT, devoted itself to a review of Gough Whitlam’s first 12 months in government.
One of the items on TDT was Smacka Fitzgibbon singing The Adventures of Edward Gough Whitlam, a take-off of The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. [Read more…]
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