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    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...
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  • Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The theory claims that the CIA bribed or unduly influenced Governor-General John Kerr to dismiss Whitlam, due to alleged...
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    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...
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    culminated in his decision to dismiss the incumbent prime minister Gough Whitlam and appoint Malcolm Fraser as his replacement, which led to unprecedented...
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    Ngara was the birthplace of the 21st prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam. It is located at 46 Rowland Street, Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria...
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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...
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    November 1975, Governor-General Sir John Kerr summoned Prime Minister Gough Whitlam to his residence and, without warning, handed him a letter dismissing...
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    Henry Kissinger issued a DEFCON 3 alert. Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam was not informed about the alert. Since the end of the Cold War in 1991...
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    his father had lost five years earlier. Barnard was elected deputy to Gough Whitlam in 1967 and became deputy prime minister following the ALP's victory...
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    block supply to the Whitlam government, precipitating the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. This culminated with Gough Whitlam being dismissed as...
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    Whitlam, AO (née Dovey; 19 November 1919 – 17 March 2012) was an Australian social campaigner, author, and athlete. She was the wife of Gough Whitlam...
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    to 1988 under Bob Hawke and as Treasurer of Australia in 1975 under Gough Whitlam. Hayden was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He attended Brisbane State...
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    Joseph Cook in 1914 and Malcolm Fraser in 1983. One prime minister, Gough Whitlam, was controversially dismissed by the governor-general during a constitutional...
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    I thought, the Whitlams, no-one's done that. I'll be able to steal all the goodwill that Australia holds in reserve for Gough Whitlam." Initially, without...
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    fifth-worst, for his 1939–41 term. Likewise, Humphrey McQueen considered Gough Whitlam to be both the fifth-best and the fourth-worst, describing him as a...
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    minister Gough Whitlam uncovered significant new material on the role of High Court justice Sir Anthony Mason in the dismissal of the Whitlam government...
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  • Antony Philip Whitlam KC (born 7 January 1944) is an Australian lawyer who has been a politician and judge. He is the son of Gough Whitlam (former Prime...
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  • middle name: Edward Gough Whitlam, known as Gough Whitlam, Australian Prime Minister. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Gough, American screenwriter...
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    "Duumvirate", it was led by the country's 21st Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The first Whitlam ministry succeeded the McMahon Ministry, which dissolved on...
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    1972 Australian federal election (category Gough Whitlam)
    led by Gough Whitlam. Labor's victory ended 23 years of successive Coalition governments that began in 1949 and started the three-year Whitlam Labor Government...
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    Alliance, cost him support, and Gough Whitlam emerged as Calwell's successor. Beazley was the education minister in the Whitlam government from 1972 to 1975...
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  • was the father of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and had a great influence on his son's values and interests. Whitlam was born in Prahran, a suburb of...
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  • law in Australia; father of Gough Whitlam Freda Whitlam (1920-2018), Australian educator and religious leader Gough Whitlam (1916–2014), 21st Prime Minister...
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  • Australian: Barry Humphries, Gough Whitlam and new nationalism" The Mythical Australian: Barry Humphries, Gough Whitlam and "new nationalism" | Australian...
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    after a stay of six or seven years. Many years later, Cairns informed Gough Whitlam that he had long believed that his father had been killed in World War...
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    entrance on the eastern side of the plaza was named Gough Whitlam Place, in honour of Gough Whitlam who represented Cabramatta as the Member for Werriwa...
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    1975, the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, dismissed the Labor Party's Gough Whitlam as prime minister. Despite Labor holding a majority in the House of...
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  • Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Retrieved 2 November 2021. "Gough Whitlam". Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Retrieved...
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    malapportioned. The division, previously named Throsby, was renamed in honour of Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister of Australia from 1972–75, in a February 2016 electoral...
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    Tim Freedman (category The Whitlams members)
    'Song of the Year' in 1998 from the former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam—after whom his band is named. Tim Freedman was born in 1964 in Sydney...
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