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
Our federal caucus is in a precarious position,
Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.
Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.
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.
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.
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.
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.
I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'
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.
....he reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.
My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.
Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.
Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.