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The Whitlam government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party. The government commenced when Labor defeated the McMahon government at the 1972 federal election, ending a record 23 years of continuous Coalition government.
Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), of which he was the longest-serving.
Political party: Australian Labor Party. Image: NAA: A6135, K19/3/75/15. Gough Whitlam became Australia’s 21st Prime Minister on 5 December 1972. His Labor government, the first after more than 2 decades, set out to change Australia through a wide-ranging reform program.
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.
Apr 28, 2024 · Gough Whitlam was an Australian politician and lawyer who introduced a number of policy measures and social reforms as prime minister of Australia (1972–75), but his troubled administration was cut short when he was dismissed by the governor-general. Whitlam was born in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne.
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Australia’s 21st Prime Minister. Gough Whitlam. 5 December 1972 to 11 November 1975. Gough Whitlam came into office in late 1972. The Australian Labor Party had been in opposition for 23 years, and Whitlam, who had reformed Labor’s policies, was keen to bring a program of social reform to the people of Australia.
Oct 21, 2014 · Getty Images. Many of the reforms Gough Whitlam introduced in the 1970s helped shape Australian society today. Gough Whitlam, prime minister for less than three years between 1972 and 1975,...
