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Whitlam removed Cairns from Treasury and made him Minister for the environment, before dismissing him from Cabinet. [ 33 ] While the Loans Affair never resulted in an actual loan, [ 59 ] according to author and Whitlam speechwriter Graham Freudenberg, "The only cost involved was the cost to the reputation of the Government.
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.
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 ...
The third Whitlam ministry was the 49th ministry of the Government of Australia. It was led by the country's 21st Prime Minister , Gough Whitlam . The third Whitlam ministry succeeded the Second Whitlam ministry , which dissolved on 12 June 1974 following the federal election that took place in May.
The new Labor Government of Gough Whitlam was eager to make long-planned reforms, although it struggled against a lack of experience in its cabinet and the onset of the 1973 oil crisis and 1973–75 recession.
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 Shadow Ministry of Gough Whitlam was the opposition Australian Labor Party frontbench of Australia from 8 February 1967 to 5 December 1972, opposing the Liberal-Country Coalition government. Gough Whitlam became Leader of the Opposition upon his election as leader of the Australian Labor Party on 9 February 1967, and headed up the ...
Connor was born on 26 January 1907 in Wollongong, New South Wales.He was the son of Ethel (née Deegan) and Peter Francis Connor; his father was a labourer. [1]Connor attended Wollongong High School, of which he graduated as dux despite contracting pneumonia in his final year.