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Political life 20 years ago as recorded by the AJPH chronicles - Mark Latham was the new Labor leader, the NSW Carr government was in trouble, law and order issues dominated in Vic, Beattie surprised Qld, WA had a treasurer named Eric Ripper, SA was worried about rail links...

20 years ago continued... Tas Premier Bacon resigned due to lung cancer, there were seat battles in the NT, and same-sex adoption was on the agenda in the ACT - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

A fantastic new AJPH article by the incomparable Jenny Hocking Prof Jenny Hocking on the role of archives and access in writing the history of the dismissal of the Whitlam government. **Open access at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj… A preview of a very special issue to come...Wiley Politics & Policy

Australian political history photo of the day - 1877 in Melbourne. Eager, behatted citizens wait outside The Age for early results to be posted

A 1955 election pamphlet for Nancy Buttfield, the first woman to represent South Australia in the Australian Parliament

In 1974, AJPH author Mary Wilson explained how Anzac Day came to be a national holiday, 'observed with particular zeal in Melbourne’, in the 1920s. The 'little digger', former PM Billy Hughes, played a key role Wiley Politics & Policy

'A Constitution is very much the cart, not the horse'. Find out why in a new open access article on the concept of political virtue and the Australian Constitution by Simon P. Kennedy and Benjamin B. Saunders onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

An election meeting in Victoria in 1871. Note the 3 reporters sitting at the front of the stage ... with their backs to the candidate ... says it all!

In 1993, Paul Keating had his 'sweetest victory of all'. Here's a reminder of the anti-GST campaign Labor ran that year... Furs, champagne and Ferraris

This poster was printed 50 years ago. It still baffles ...

A photo for Mother's Day on Sunday of the most famous political mother in Australia. Enid Lyons was the mother of 11 children when she moved into the Lodge with her husband, PM Joe Lyons, in 1932. In 1943, she became the first female member of the House of Representatives

A new **open access** article by John Mikler and Imogen Ryan explains the power of Australia's mining and energy industries. Is it structural power, discursive power, instrumental power or all of the above? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The National Library has a fabulous collection of political ephemera dating back to 1901. There are boxes of brochures, posters, badges, t-shirts and other wonderful items from each election National Library of Australia

What is the relationship between self-determination and sport? A new open access article explores this through the exploits of the Brisbane All Blacks, an Aboriginal rugby league football club established in Brisbane after WWII onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

30 years after the HMAS Swan scandal and inquiries, a new open access article by @NoahRiseman revisits histories of sexual harassment in the Australian Defence Force doi.org/10.1111/ajph.1… Wiley Politics & Policy Richard Marles

An unexamined element of the Whitlam era explored by Kristen Rundle in a new article. What can we learn today about the significance of the administrative realm and the everyday mechanics of social security administration? doi.org/10.1111/ajph.1… Melbourne Law School Wiley Politics & Policy

Why didn't Australia participate more in the space race? A new **open access** article by Tristan Moss explores Australia's space history doi.org/10.1111/ajph.1… Wiley Politics & Policy Tristan Moss

A new *open access* article by Chris Beer looks at how seachange migration affected the electoral politics of the Central Coast of New South Wales doi.org/10.1111/ajph.1…

AJPH is proud to announce a *new special issue* edited by Jenny Hocking and Paul Williams. Seven articles on different aspects of the Whitlam government-from elections to economics, disability policy, Aboriginal self-determination and more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/146784… Wiley Politics & Policy