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In 1975, Gough Whitlam replaced Cameron with Jim McClelland, as minister of the Department of Labour and Immigration. This decision was made following the start of a national recession, caused by world wide inflationary pressure from the OPEC oil embargo , [ 16 ] and further impacted by national wage increases and harsh tariff reductions.
1.21 Gough Whitlam. 1.22 Malcolm Fraser. 1.23 Bob Hawke. 1.24 Paul Keating. ... Full name: Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne. James Scullin
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 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 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.
Annette Elizabeth Gough OAM (born 1950) is an Australian science and environmental education scholar and Professor Emerita in the School of Education at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia. [1]
One prime minister, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed by the governor-general during a constitutional crisis. [8] Since the office was established in 1901, thirty men and one woman have been prime minister. Robert Menzies and Kevin Rudd served two non-consecutive terms in office while Alfred Deakin and Andrew Fisher served three non-consecutive ...
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General who then commissioned the leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as prime minister to hold a new election.