# Jenny Hocking

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Alliances and recognition: Pamela Cohen AM on being influential

For Pamela Cohen, it wasn’t enough that the cardiac patients in the hospital where she worked received the best care. Pamela wanted that level of care to be available to every cardiac patient, throughout Australia and overseas. She received good advice on what she needed to do to influence this fie…

The biggest political scandal in Australian history: The Whitlam Dismissal, 50 years on

On November 11, 1975, Governor General John Kerr dismissed Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam — creating the biggest scandal in modern Australian history. The dismissal offered plenty of lessons for the nation about political secrecy, the manipulation of democratic rules, how power hungry figurehea…

The Dismissal episode 2: A revolt of the establishment

In this second episode of Pearlcast from John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations, we return to the dramatic events of 11 November 1975 – the day the Governor-General dismissed the Whitlam Labor government. Presenter and Pearls and Irritations Editor Catriona Jackson is joined again by two guests at t…

The Dismissal - Episode 1

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Episode 1: Prof Jenny Hocking & John Menadue In this first episode of Pearlcast from Pearls and Irritations, we begin a powerful three-part series on one of the most consequential events in Australia’s political history: the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975. To mark the 50th anniversary …

A History of The Dismissal with Professor Jenny Hocking

November 1975: Australia was in a crisis. The Whitlam Government had passed a supply bill in the House of Representatives but the Coalition, led by Malcolm Fraser, was blocking its passage in the Senate. The Senate had never impeded the Government like this before and by the end of November the mon…

Recognising Young Peoples’ Chronic Pain, Fundraising for Elijah’s Independence and Freedom, History of the Whitlam Dismissal, Health Workers Union Strike, Questioning the National AI Plan

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines:Mass arrests at Rising Tide protest in NewcastleUN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visit AustraliaWest Papuan National Flag DayCalls for federal government to wipe household energy debt Victorian healthcare workers strike today Physiotherapy researcher an…

Michael Lester Interviews Jenny Hocking — Uncovering the Truth Behind the Whitlam Dismissal

In this special episode, Michael Lester speaks with Professor Jenny Hocking, AM, about the ongoing controversy surrounding the 1975 dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam—50 years on. As a historian and biographer from Monash University, Jenny shares her decade-long journey through royal secrecy…

Laura Tingle's week in politics, The fate of the Palace letters and forty years since the Iranian revolution.

Laura Tingle dissects national politics and focusses on the medical evacuation bill. Jenny Hocking's campaign to bring the Palace Letters into public view suffers a legal set back. Amin Saikal discusses how the state of Iran has managed to survive from both internal and external threats in the fort…