Meanjin 84.3 Spring 2025

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How robust is Australian democracy Fifty years ago, an elected government was abruptly dismissed by a governor-general whose reasons, methods and secret correspondences have never been made clear to the Australian public. This season we turn to the cultural and political impactsof 11 November 1975 that continue to shape contemporary Australia. Tom McIlroy speaks to the remaining living journalists who covered the event. Njamal man and Indigenous jurisprudence scholar Tyson Holloway-Clark looks at Pine Gap the joint Australia-US military base placed on nuclear alert during Whitlams prime ministership without him or the Australian Government being informed from a First Nations perspective. Virginia Haussegger tracks fifty years of political misogyny since the Whitlam Government appointed the worlds first Womens Adviser to a national government and introduced Australias first Racial Discrimiation Act. Ben Eltham assess Whitlams arts and cultural legacy. Constitutional expert Anne Twomey touches on some of the constitutional sleepers that that threaten to undermine our democracy if tested. Compelling reading alongside fine poetry, fiction, memoir and review pieces makes this an historic edition of Australias leading literary journal that no Meanjin collection can be without. Embrace Australias finest writers: Meanjin 84.3 Spring 2025 out Tuesday 16 September.

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Editor of Meanjin Esther Anatolitis is one of Australia's most influential advocates for arts and culture. With two decades in creative and media leadership, she is a highly respected champion of artists' voices.