On 15 March 2024, the Whitlam Institute hosted a CPD seminar to examine the law, practice and policy underpinning the legislation to abolish the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and establish a new, fit-for purpose administrative review body, to be named the Administrative Review Tribunal.

The Whitlam Institute is pleased to announce the two recipients of the 2024 E.G. Whitlam Research Fellowship: Assoc Prof Tania Penovic and Dr Jeremy Walker.

In February 2024, the enduring legacy of the Whitlam government was acknowledged by Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape at the fifth Papua New Guinea-Australia Annual Leaders’ Dialogue.

In 2004, Year 6 student Haydon K became the first Overall Competition Winner of the What Matters? Writing Competition, writing about injustices faced by refugee children fleeing the war in Afghanistan…

In this new Whitlam legacy paper, Revolution and Reform: The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Whitlam Years, 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.  

We are excited to present the final publication by 2022 E.G. Whitlam Research Fellow Dr Ben Huf, ‘Curator of the National Estate’: Equality, Environment, and the Whitlam Government.

Read the full paper here.

The Whitlam Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Zoe Staines as the 2023 E.G. Whitlam Research Fellowship recipient. We look forward to sharing the research of Dr Zoe Staines with you as it unfolds. 

On February 17, 2023, we hosted an inaugural half day seminar on the contemporary relevance of the legal transformations of the Whitlam government. the Federal Court of Australia. Speakers examined issues of Indigenous justice, and domestic and family violence with a spotlight on the Commonwealth’s participation in the provision of Legal Aid services.   

On Friday 2 December, fifty years to the day of Gough Whitlam's election, we hosted Prime Minister the Hon Anthony Albanese to dedicate the Whitlam Prime Ministerial Home, 32 Albert Street Cabramatta.

We look forward to hosting a public open day in 2023. The Whitlam Prime Ministerial Home will be a space with a living purpose, and we are excited to involve the community in it.

On October 21, the Whitlam Institute held a Symposium titled ‘Breaking Ground: Lessons in Preparing for and Winning Government’, the first of a series that will look back upon and examine this period. We were thrilled to use this opportunity to launch two 50th Anniversary Legacy Papers that draw together the strands of the sixties and early seventies to highlight how Gough Whitlam engaged with and embodied a rapidly changing Australia in order to end Labor’s decades long period in Opposition.

This exchange first appeared in Griffith Review 78, A Matter of Taste.

This is the last in a series of intergenerational exchanges and reflections on the links to and legacies of the Whitlam era in the run up to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 election. In this collaboration between Griffith Review and the Whitlam Institute, a professor of sociology talks to a cook, writer and television presenter about the many ways Whitlam helped us reimagine Australia.

This exchange first appeared in Griffith Review 77, Real Cool World.

This is the third in a series of intergenerational exchanges and reflections on the links to and legacies of the Whitlam era in the run up to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 election. In this collaboration between Griffith Review and the Whitlam Institute, the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG speaks with E.G. Whitlam Fellow Dr. Benjamin Huf about the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) as a model for inter­national collaboration and accommodation.

In this paper, E.G. Whitlam Fellow (2021), Associate Professor Camilla Nelson, presents the findings of a multiple case study research project investigating the impact of Federal Circuit and Family Court proceedings on children. It makes recommendations about how legal systems can become more aligned with children’s rights.

This exchange first appeared in Griffith Review 76, Acts of Reckoning

This is the second in a series of intergenerational exchanges and reflections on the links to and legacies of the Whitlam era in the run up to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 election. In this collaboration between Griffith Review and the Whitlam Institute, a federal senator and land rights activist talks with an Indigenous studies and law graduate about Indigenous affairs across the past fifty years and into the future.

This new research from the Whitlam Institute captures a wide cross-section of perspectives and experiences from ordinary PNG citizens, including those living in a remote part of PNG, voices that are rarely heard in more official forums.

This exchange first appeared in Griffith Review 75, Learning Curves

In this first of a series of intergenerational exchanges and reflections on the links to and legacies of the Whitlam era in the run up to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 election, a former New South Wales ALP Minister for Education talks with a current tertiary student activist about the changing landscape of education – and advocacy – past, present and future.