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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 ...
On 9 December 1966, [13] the United States and Australia signed a treaty titled "Agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the United States of America relating to the Establishment of a Joint Defence Space Research Facility", [13] which was signed by Australia's Paul Hasluck and America's Edwin M. Cronk, detailing that a facility would be ...
In 1965, a group of concerned Australian women formed the anti-conscription organisation Save Our Sons, which was established in Sydney with other branches later formed in Wollongong, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle and Adelaide. The movement protested against conscription of Australians to fight in the Vietnam War and made the plight of ...
Campaign poster. It's Time was a political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam during the 1972 federal election in Australia.Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal-Country Party coalition) government, Labor put forward a raft of major policy proposals, accompanied by a television advertising campaign of prominent ...
3 April – Prime minister Gough Whitlam launches a public appeal for the Australian Council for Overseas Aid to help raise money for refugees from Vietnam and Indo-China, confirming the Australian Government would commit $50,000 to the cause. [71] The Federal Government also confirms around 500 orphans from Vietnam would soon arrive in ...
Klarna will start drug testing employees in Sweden from January, Business Insider has learned. The buy-now, pay-later firm told staff about the new measures in an internal Slack post on Monday.
The jobs report also showed upward revisions for previous months, with September payrolls revised up by 32,000 to 255,000 and October revised up by 24,000. The unemployment rate edged up ...
1 January – Six hikers who went missing in Lamington National Park on 27 December 1976 are found safe and well. [1] They had been attempting to locate the site of the 1937 Airlines of Australia Stinson crash which occurred on 18 February 1937.