While the 1975 sacking of prime minister Gough Whitlam remains one of the most tumultuous and memorable events in Australian political history, an award-winning biographer argues the modernising ...

Former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam has been remembered as a visionary and a giant of federal politics by figures across the political spectrum. Mr Whitlam led the country through a period ...

This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the November 11, 1975 dismissal of the Australian Labor government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by Governor-General John Kerr, the official ...

He was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the ...

He declared before his largely white audience how Whitlam’s introduction of the Racial Discrimination Act brought changes that had met this nation’s historic calling as one of the world’s leading ...