Gough Whitlam, The Whitlam Government 1972 – 1975, Viking, Ringwood, 1985 News Ltd/Newspix A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. No other Australian politician has ascended into the realms of mythology quite like Gough has. Gough Whitlam is perhaps best known for the manner in which he ... Gough Whitlam left a long list of achievements. 10 Copy quote Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.
In 1975, after being dismissed as Prime Minister, he gave a rousing speech that will live well beyond his 98 years. Four months after proposing to slow the economy, Whitlam presented cabinet with a stimulus package, prepared with no input from Treasury.

National Archives of Australia: A6180:18/6/74/1 Gough Whitlam came into office in late 1972. On 11 November 1975, after a series of dramatic events including a 1974 double dissolution and a budgetary supply crisis, the Gough Whitlam-led federal Labor government became the first (and only) government in Australian history to be dismissed by the Governor-General.. Mr Whitlam and his Labor Party came to power in 1972, implementing policies which many celebrated, but he grew less popular amid a troubled economy and a fierce political opposition. Gough Whitlam was prime minister for less than three years. SBS Soccer caller Les Murray recounted on Tuesday how Whitlam was the first prime minister to … Gough Whitlam is 95 this month. Gough Whitlam was always at pains to remind me that he was my constituent, addressing me generally loudly and at a distance as 'My Member, my Member' just to make it … This biographical essay, by Jenny Hocking and Clare Land, was adapted from the National Archives' Australia's Prime Ministers website (primeministers.naa.gov.au) with additional material from Jenny Hocking's Gough Whitlam: a moment in history (Melbourne University Press, 2008), and Gough Whitlam: his time (Melbourne University Press, 2012). And on November 11, Rex Connor met Tirath Khemlani. Gough Whitlam dead: Famous dismissal speech THESE words made Gough Whitlam a legend. When government debt began to get out of control there would be a tightening of the belt or a contraction, in other words a credit squeeze, and at other times there was a little bit of an expansion. Letters composed by the Queen before the 1975 excusal of then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam can be made open, an Australian court has dominated. Gough Whitlam's Gurindji Land Ceremony speech, August 16, 1975.