Australia marks 50 years since the Racial Discrimination Act became law. This important legislation helps make sure people ...

CANBERRA, Australia – Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, whose government was credited with instituting lasting social reforms during a short tenure that ended in a bitter ...

Gough Whitlam swept to political power in Australia in 1972 under a slogan, “it’s time,” that seemed to sum up everything that was stale and old-fashioned about an inward-looking ...

Australia marks 50 years since the Racial Discrimination Act became law. This important legislation helps make sure people are treated ...

Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ (Triple Zed) launched one month after the Gough Whitlam Dismissal with announcer John Woods being transmission with The Who ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’.

ADVERTISEMENT The 1975 dismissal of Gough Whitlam by the queen’s representative in the country, the governor general Sir John Kerr, came to be known as ‘The Dissolution,’ and represented ...

Gough Whitlam was so enraged at being dismissed by the Governor-General that he waged a bitter months-long 'smear campaign'. Sir John Kerr sacked the Labor PM on November 11, 1975, after ...

Australia's 21st prime minister and a titan of the Australian Labor Party, Edward Gough Whitlam, has died, aged 98. Mr Whitlam leaves a legacy of unprecedented and unmatched change in Australian ...

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

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 ...

Gough Whitlam, whose 1972 election as Australia’s prime minister ushered in some of the most sweeping policy and social reforms in the country’s history before his dramatic and controversial ...