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 ...

Gough Whitlam, one of Australia's best known prime ministers, was in office for only three years, but was his country's most controversial and influential political identity for a decade.

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 ...

Former prime minister Gough Whitlam, the reformist Labor leader who was famously dismissed from his post in 1975, has died aged 98. Tributes poured in from political figures this morning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gough Whitlam, who served as Labor prime minister from 1972 to 1975, dies at 98 That’s a wrap. Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen reads cards and tributes left at a growing memorial on the steps of ...

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 ...

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 ...