Portrait of Hon. Gough Whitlam and Margaret Whitlam, 6th August 2005 / Bob Givens
- Bib ID:
- 3572981
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Givens, Bob
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2005
- 1 digital photograph : col.
- Series:
- Collection of photographs of the International Women's Year 30th Anniversary Dinner at Old Parliament House, Canberra, 6th August 2005.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Biography/History:
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Edward Gough Whitlam was born in Kew, Melbourne on July 11, 1916. He grew up mainly in Canberra where his father was a senior public servant. He studied law and entered practice near Sydney after serving in World War II. A member of the Labour party, he was elected to Parliament in 1952. In 1960 he succeeded Arthur Calwell as party leader and attempted to broaden the party's appeal to the middle class in order to reverse its poor electoral showings of the 1950s and 60s. In the Dec., 1972, elections he led the party to victory against the Liberal-Country coalition that had dominated Australian politics for years. As joint prime minister and foreign minister, he emphasized better treatment for aborigines and a limit to British and U.S. influence in Australia.
Immediately after taking office, he ordered Australian troops to return from South Vietnam and ended conscription. In 1973 Whitlam relinquished the office of foreign minister. In the May, 1974, elections his government was returned to power with a small majority in the lower house. In 1975 he was dismissed by the governor-general after the opposition party, which controlled the Australian senate, refused to appropriate money to support his government. He resigned as party leader in 1977 and in 1978 left politics to teach at the Australian National Univ. at Canberra. From 1983 to 1986 he was ambassador to UNESCO. He has written many books, including Labor Essays (1980), The Cost of Federalism (1983), and The Whitlam Government 1972-75 (1985).
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on information from caption list.
- Part of the collection: Collection of photographs of the International Women's Year 30th Anniversary Dinner at Old Parliament House, Canberra, 6th August 2005.
- Acquired in digital format; access copies available online.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Commissioned by the National Library of Australia, 2005.
- Subject:
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- Whitlam, Gough, 1916-2014 -- Portraits
- Whitlam, Margaret, 1919-2012 -- Portraits
- Parliament House (Parkes, A.C.T.) -- Photographs
- International Women's Year, 2005 -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Photographs
- Women's rights -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Photographs
- Prime ministers -- Australia -- Portraits
- Prime ministers' spouses -- Australia -- Portraits
- Politicians' spouses -- Australia -- Portraits
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This belongs to the Collection of photographs of the International Women's Year 30th Anniversary Dinner at Old Parliament House, Canberra, 6th August 2005.
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 2005
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