The Eleventh

Country: Australia

Number of Episodes: 7

Average Length: 45 minutes

Year of Release: 2020

Created by: ABC

Gough Whitlam is one of Australia's most loved and iconic prime ministers (from progressive circles anyway). Whitlam's sacking on the 11th of November 1975 is an event that most Australians have heard of. But how much do we know about what was going on behind the closed doors of Parliament House that led to the shocking culmination of events on that November day? The podcast takes us back to Whitlam's early days in the Prime Ministership, his ethos and policies, his foibles, the scandals that followed the Government, and the stoush with opposition leader, Malcolm Fraser which set off the chain of events that led to that fateful day and the iconic words Whitlam spoke on the steps of Parliament House.