Gough Whitlam

Gough Whitlam

Edward Gough Whitlam 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 head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then governor-general of Australia, John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by a governor-general.

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1916 – 2014
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Born in
Melbourne
Educated at
University of SydneyCanberra Grammar SchoolMowbray HouseTelopea Park School
Awards
🏆 Centenary Medal🏆 Australian National Living Treasure🏆 Companion of the Order of Australia🏆 Honorary Grand Companion of the Order of Logohu🏆 Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun

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  • 1916

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  • 2014

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