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Gough Whitlam
Constitutional crisis leading to Whitlam's dismissal
With a great interest in international affairs, Whitlam travelled more widely than any previous Prime Minister or opposition leader. Among his many overseas tours he visited most nations of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Pacific and North America.
Following a series of controversies involving Labor ministers and revelations of government attempts to obtain foreign loans through unconventional channels, the Liberal–National Country Party opposition refused to allow the government’s budgetary legislation to pass the Senate in in the hope of forcing the government to an election.
From October to November , with the government’s monetary supply effectively cut off, a grave constitutional crisis resulted.
The crisis climaxed on 11 November , when the Governor-General, John Kerr, withdrew Whitlam’s commission as Prime Minister, commissioned the Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser to form an interim
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Gough Whitlam: His Time: The Biography, Volume II by Jenny Hocking
Biography
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Gough Whitlam: His Time: The Biography, Volume II by Jenny Hocking
Miegunyah Press, $ hb, pp,
Biography
by Neal Blewett•
November , no.
Jenny Hocking concluded the first volume of her Whitlam biography () on the eve of her subject’s electoral victory in December Gough Whitlam had been the most effective and creative opposition leader in Australian history: since he had dragged a protesting Labor party into the second half of the twentieth century; provided the party with a contemporary social democratic agenda; broadened the appeal of the party beyond its historic working-class base; and seen off one Liberal prime minister, with another to follow. The challenge for Hocking in this second volume is to explain how this promise turned to dust and ashes within three years, with Whitlam’s dismissal by the governor-general, followed bygd electoral repu
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Gough Whitlam
Prime Minister of Australia from to
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Edward Gough Whitlam[a] (11 July &#;&#; 21 October ) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December to November 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 constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by a governor-general.
Whitlam was an air navigator in the Royal Australian Air Force for four years during World War&#;II, and worked as a barrister following the war. He was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives in , becoming a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Werriwa. Whitlam became deputy l