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The discography of Australian rock band the Whitlams, consists of eight studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and twenty-four singles. Since 2021, the Whitlams have recorded as the Whitlams BlackStump Band and released Kookaburra in March 2024, which acts as the group's eighth studio album.
The album features a mix of original and cover songs, including tracks written by Justin Hayes a.k.a. Stanley Claret (Plunder's brother). The album comprises three studio tracks, five live takes and two songs from their first demo, [11] including a tribute song to the band's namesake, "Gough", which was written by Freedman. [6]
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.
On 22 December 2020, the president replaced six ministers. The most notable addition to the cabinet was businessman Sandiaga Uno.His admission into the cabinet following his former running mate in the 2019 presidential election Prabowo Subianto, made it the first time in Indonesia's history that all former contestants of a single presidential election were in the same cabinet.
[2] [3] The song "No Aphrodisiac", co-written by Freedman, [4] was their breakthrough hit in 1997; [5] their top four ARIA albums by sales are Love This City (1999), Torch the Moon (2002), Little Cloud (2006), and their compilation album Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You: Best of the Whitlams in 2008.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...