Gough Whitlam
Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam AC QCwas the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. The Leader of the Labor Party from 1967 to 1977, Whitlam led his party to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election. He won the 1974 election before being controversially dismissed by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have his commission...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 July 1916
CountryAustralia
I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'
It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.
He is lofty, and I am eminent.
Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.
She was a remarkable person and the love of my life. We were married for almost 70 years. She encouraged and sustained me and our four children, their families and many other people in a life full of engagement with Australians from all walks of life.
If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.
I was profoundly embarrassed by it (the White Australia Policy) and did all I could to change it.
I have more influence now than when I had the power.
Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands this piece of the earth itself as a sign that we restore them to you and your children forever.
When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: “I am a Country member”. I interjected “I remember”. He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.
Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.