1975年，时任澳大利亚总督约翰·卡尔（John Kerr）（又称约翰爵士）仓促罢免前工党总理高夫·惠特拉姆（Gough Whitlam）曾轰动一时。 1975年11月11日 ...

Director, Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research, Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association; Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney Richard Holden is an ARC Future Fellow. Anne-marie ...

Gough Whitlam, the prime minister who changed Australia in the 1970s Gough Whitlam found himself at the centre of a constitutional crisis after being dismissed as prime minister by Australia's ...

There was the horror of the Pol Pot genocide, the end of the Vietnam War - while in Australia there was the dismissal of the ...

Gough Whitlam, who has died aged 98, was prime minister of Australia for three frantic years until he was sacked without warning by Sir John Kerr, the governor-general, just before lunch on ...

I vividly recall the election on Dec 2, 1972, that brought the Australian Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam to power. Within a month, on Dec 21, 1972, the Whitlam government established formal ...

Gough Whitlam was a giant of Australian politics and a great Labor hero who led the party from the wilderness, but his government was flawed. 21st July 1972: Australian politician, Gough Whitlam ...

Whitlam came from a different age, having served in World War II – it was the age of Churchill and Roosevelt and epic events. Whitlam believed in the great man ­theory of history. He aspired to ...

Addressed to president Richard Nixon, the letter laid out Whitlam's response to the United States' so-called "Christmas bombings" of Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam's major population centres.