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Jan 12, 2024 · Margaret and Gough Whitlam reading a scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at the opening of a collection at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2003. Photograph: Patrick Riviere/Getty Images Gough ...
Gough and Margaret Whitlam set out on a visit to Indonesia in September 1973 and travelled through South-East Asia. On 31 October Whitlam became the first Prime Minister to visit the People’s Republic of China. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam with Premier Zhou Enlai in China, 1973. NAA: A6135, K15/11/73/20.
Oct 21, 2014 · Gough Whitlam, prime minister for less than three years between 1972 and 1975, pushed through a raft of reforms that radically changed Australia's economic, legal and cultural landscape.
Feb 14, 2024 · Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. The longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1967 to 1977, he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive administration that extraordinarily ended with his removal as prime minister after controversially ...
Jul 14, 2020 · The Queen was not informed in advance about the 1975 dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, newly released letters show. Whitlam's government was removed by the Queen's ...
Sep 29, 2022 · On 11 November 1975, after a series of dramatic events including a 1974 double dissolution and a budgetary supply crisis, the Gough Whitlam -led federal Labor government became the first (and only) government in Australian history to be dismissed by the Governor-General. While this constitutional crisis has overshadowed the Whitlam years, the ...
Gough Whitlam (1916 - 2014) was one of Australia’s most influential and controversial Prime Ministers.1 Larger than life and with a rapier wit, he set out to transform Australia through a wide-ranging reform program.2 While his rollercoaster term ended abruptly with his dismissal by Governor-General John Kerr, Whitlam ‘established social ...
