In June last year the then Coalition government provided a $1.3 million grant to purchase and ... Anthony Albanese inside the restored home of former prime minister Gough Whitlam. Picture: ...

IT was 1975 and a sombre day for Gough Whitlam, who had just been dismissed as Prime Minister. But his dismissal speech on the steps of Parliament House that day remains one of the most historic ...

In 1973 Gough Whitlam implemented a 25 per cent general tariff cut. In 1974 he agreed to float the Australian dollar and liberalise capital markets. This was Gough the Globaliser, a free trader ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Gough Whitlam, a flamboyant Australian prime minister and controversial social reformer whose grip on power was cut short by a bitter constitutional crisis, died ...

PM Gough Whitlam went out of his way to stop Vietnamese who had supported Australia from fleeing Vietnam with our diplomats. Certainly, the Fraser government was more sympathetic to Vietnamese ...

Gough Whitlam remembered for his quick wit — and that TV ad for Leggo’s pasta sauce. GOUGH Whitlam was that rare thing: a politician who could make people laugh, whether he was tearing down an ...

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, a transformational political figure who led the country's Labor Party government of 1972-1975, has died at age 98. Whitlam led Labor out of a 23 ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not forewarned of the 1975 removal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by then Governor-General John Kerr, according to classified papers released Tuesday, which ...

A collection of more than 200 letters between Australia’s former governor-general John Kerr and the Queen has revealed the extent of the Palace’s role in the 1975 sacking of Labor prime ...

On December 2 1972, after 23 years in opposition, Gough Whitlam led the Labor party back to government. What followed was three tumultuous years of crisis and transformation, after which Australia ...