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Gough Whitlam

Jul 11, 1916 - Oct 21, 2014 (98 years old) in

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 head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then-governor-general of Australia, Sir 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.

Known For

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Whitlam: The Power and the Passion
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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Himself
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Whitlam: The Power And The Passion
Self (archival)

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