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The Whitlam government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party.The government commenced when Labor defeated the McMahon government at the 1972 federal election, ending a record 23 years of continuous Coalition government.
The Loans affair, also called the Khemlani affair, was a political scandal involving the Whitlam government of Australia in 1975 in which it was accused of attempting to borrow money from the Middle East by the agency of the Pakistani banker Tirath Khemlani (17 September 1920 — 19 May 1991) and thus bypass the standard procedures of the Australian Treasury and violate the Australian ...
Edward Gough Whitlam [a] (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975.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 ...
The Second Whitlam ministry was the 48th ministry of the Government of Australia.It was led by the country's 21st Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam.The Second Whitlam ministry succeeded the first Whitlam ministry, which dissolved on 19 December 1972 after the final results of the federal election that took place on 2 December became known and the full ministry was able to be sworn in.
First Whitlam Ministry 47th Ministry of Australia The First Whitlam Ministry being sworn in by Governor-General Sir Paul Hasluck Date formed 5 December 1972 Date dissolved 19 December 1972 People and organisations Monarch Elizabeth II Governor-General Sir Paul Hasluck Prime Minister Gough Whitlam Deputy Prime Minister Lance Barnard No. of ministers 2 Member party Labor Status in legislature ...
Pilger claims that while leader of the opposition and visiting then-Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Abdul Razak Hussein, Whitlam was informed of the existence of ASIS, which was the counterpart to ASIO which conducted operations overseas, and claims that on two occasions, in Chile, they were discovered aiding the CIA in 'de-stabilising' the ...
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