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Australian PM meets Xi Jinping during historic China trip signalling thaw in frosty diplomatic ties

Australian PM invites Xi Jinping to Australia after ‘satisfying’ bilateral talks in China

The Independent UK

Albanese and Wong evoke Whitlam in bid to defrost China relations

Labor duo shrug off Arctic weather in Beijing to use re-enactment of their hero’s famous 1973 photo op to plot a new course out of the cold

The Guardian - AU

Albanese walks in Whitlam's steps, 50 years later

Half a century after Gough Whitlam became the first Australian prime minister to visit China, Anthony Albanese has walked in his footsteps.

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Albanese to echo Whitlam as he prays for a good harvest in Xi talks

The prime minister will visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on Monday morning before a significant meeting with China’s president, Xi Jinping

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s Albanese heads to China touting ‘consistent, steady’ engagement

Labor leader is first Australian prime minister to visit since 2016 after a turbulent period in bilateral ties.

Al Jazeera

Can Anthony Albanese catch the dragon’s tail to defrost and reboot Australia-China relations?

In an international landscape that is fluid and dangerous, the PM knows relationship-building could be the key to global stability

The Guardian - AU

The 'drums of war' are receding, but Anthony Albanese still faces many uncertainties on his trip to China

Fifty years ago this week, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam visited the People’s Republic of China, establishing a relationship that has become mutually beneficial in terms of economic growth and development to both China and Australia.

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Bill Hayden remembered for 'giving Labor a future'

Champion of universal healthcare and Labor giant Bill Hayden has been honoured at a state funeral by friends, family and dignitaries.

AAP

Albanese to raise human rights and trade with Xi in first China visit by Australian PM since 2016

Ahead of trip signalling emergence from diplomatic deep freeze, Albanese also calls on Beijing to again allow Australian journalists to report from mainland

The Guardian - AU

After 50 years, the women's liberation movement is in the Australian curriculum

Students will learn about a time when 'woman' and 'career' weren't uttered in the same sentence.

The Canberra Times

Ping-pong diplomacy: Australian table tennis players return to China, five decades after historic tour

This week, two of the original members of Australia’s 1971 “ping-pong diplomacy” team are returning to Beijing to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

The Conversation

As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism

Former Labor leader and governor-general Bill Hayden, whose death was announced on Saturday, is rightly being remembered for introducing Australia’s first universal healthcare scheme Medibank, which lives on today as Medicare.

The Conversation

Here's what happens to workers when coal-fired power plants close. It isn't good

When Australia’s dirtiest coal-fired power plant, Hazelwood in Victoria, closed in 2017, Australian authorities were blind to the collateral damage.

The Conversation

Bill Hayden obituary

The one-time Labor party leader and governor general was a popular and distinctive leader, once destined to become prime minister

The Guardian - AU

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Labor legend Hayden's journey from battler to viceroy

Bill Hayden overcame a tough childhood and personal tragedy to hold some of Australia's most important positions.

The Conversation

Bill Hayden's remarkable contribution to public life

Who have been Australia’s most accomplished federal opposition leaders? The conventional answer to this question is Robert Menzies and Gough Whitlam, both renowned for rejuvenating their respective sides of politics and galvanising new constituencies of support.

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PMs pay tribute to 'architect of Medicare' Bill Hayden

Bill Hayden, who served as a minister under Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke before becoming Australia's 21st governor-general, has died at the age of 90.

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Sydney Opera House at 50: a public appeal, a controversial build, a lavish opening – and a venue for all

It is one of the most famous buildings in the world. It has an instantly recognisable silhouette that adorns tea towels, bottle openers and souvenir sweatshirts.

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'We should be listening': the long history of Liberal innovation – and failure – on Indigenous policy

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the names and images of deceased people.

The Conversation

What history can tell us about the success (or failure) of referendums in Australia

The Australian nation came into being following a series of referendums in the 1890s, and they have been a regular feature of Australian democracy ever since. In every decade of the 20th century, there was at least one referendum. However, the 2023 referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…

The Conversation

In China, Albanese might find an economy as uncertain as Japan's 30 years ago

When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits China later this year he will encounter a nation whose future is about as uncertain as it was 50 years ago when Gough Whitlam became the first Australian prime minister to visit in late 1973.

The Guardian - AU

Albanese’s China trip suggests a smoother relationship rather than a cosy one

A key calculation of the Australian PM’s team is that dialogue is of value, even if both sides agree to disagree

The Conversation

A new biography of Donald Horne examines a life of indefatigable energy and intellectual curiosity

In May 2004, little over a year before he died, Donald Horne took to the stage at the Sydney Writer’s Festival for an event to mark the launch of the fourth edition of Griffith Review: Making Perfect Bodies. Donald had written an essay called “Mind, body, age” that vigorously burst…

The Guardian - AU

The Dismissal review – Gough Whitlam musical both delights and drags

Seymour Centre, SydneyNarrated by Norman Gunston, this musical about the former prime minister and the events of 1975 is often funny – but it’s messy and overstuffed

The Conversation

‘An extremely serious musical comedy’ about Whitlam? Yes. The Dismissal is great fun, witty and sharply observed

The Whitlam government has a mythical status in the Australian popular imagination. While it lasted less than two full terms between December 1972 and November 1975, it has had an outsized cultural presence ever since.

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