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29 de sept. de 2022 · 1975: Governor-General dismisses Whitlam government. 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.
20 de oct. de 2014 · The towering, patrician Gough Whitlam, who has died aged 98, made his mark in a dynamic and chaotic era of Australian politics.His legacy is to some extent overshadowed by the dramatic nature of ...
Terms as Member of Parliament. House of Representatives: 17 February 1953 to 31 July 1978 (Werriwa) Deputy Leader of the Opposition: March 1960 to February 1967. Leader of the Opposition: February 1967 to December 1972. November 1975 to December 1977.
20 de oct. de 2014 · Gough Whitlam was born in July 1916, the son of a lawyer who also served as solicitor-general. He was first elected to the Federal Parliament in 1952 and became deputy leader of the Labor Party in ...
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General who then commissioned the leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as ...
21 de oct. de 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.
Edward Gough Whitlam (1916-2014), barrister, prime minister, and ambassador, was born on 11 July 1916 at Kew, Melbourne, elder of two children and only son of Henry Frederick Ernest (Fred) Whitlam, public servant, lawyer, and human rights advocate, and Martha (Mattie), née Maddocks, both Victorian-born. Mattie, a gentle feminist, was clever ...
