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'Exits' is a 1979 Australian drama-documentary directed by Paul Davies on the effect of the 1975 dismissal of the Labour Government of Gough Whitlam on a handful of characters wandering around Melbourne. It is the earlier of two treatments of the event along with 'Home on the Range' (1982) before 'The Dismissal' (1983).http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/readingroom/serial/AJCS/1.2/Cunningham.html "The only filmic treatments of the events of 11 November 1975, 'Exits' (Paul Davies, Pat Laughren, Carolyn Howard, 1979) and 'Home on the Range' (Gil Scrine, 1982) circulate marginally as independent 'political' films, each with tangential, though significant, modes of intersection with the politics of the dismissal. 'Exits' situates Whitlam's dismissal in terms of its existential impact on the lives of 'ordinary' people undergoing their own relational and vocational 'exits', juxtaposed somewhat incoherently, or, to gloss it positively, 'experimentally', with rhetorical gestures toward CIA involvement in the dismissal. 'Home on the Range' does more than gesture toward such CIA intervention, indeed, it marshals a persuasive array of evidence linking the imminent expiry of leases on U. S. military and intelligence bases in Australia in 1975, the CIA, and Whitlam's dismissal. Comparing this analysis and what is offered in 'The Dismissal' on the CIA is instructive.

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Category:1979 films

Category:1975 Australian constitutional crisis


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