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(Edward) Gough Whitlam, AC 1987, QC 1962, MHR 1952-78, was the Prime Minister of Australia from December 1972 to November 1975. When Whitlam became Prime Minister in 1972 he abolished conscription, withdrew the remaining Australian troops from Vietnam, banned sporting teams from South Africa, changed Australia’s voting on South African questions in the UN, organised independence for PNG, abolished tertiary fees and the death penalty, introduced welfare payments for single parent families and reduced the voting age to eighteen years. Yet even years after ending his term of office as Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam remains a household name. On his resignation from parliament in 1978, Gough became a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. The same year he was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia and in 1980 the first National Fellow of the Australian National University and the following year Sydney University conferred on him an honorary doctorate of Literature. He was appointed Australian Ambassador to UNESCO in 1983 and in 1985 was elected to its Executive Board.
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Edward Gough Whitlam (born July 11 1916), Australian politician and the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, was Australia's first Labor Prime Minister for 23 years, and is the only Prime Minister to be dismissed by the Governor-General. He has been deified by his admirers and demonised by his opponents, and is one of the most controversial figures in Australian political history.
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Edward Gough Whitlam (commonly known by his middle name) was born in Melbourne in 1916. He graduated in Law from the University of Sydney, and served as a navigator in the Air Force during the Second World War. Whitlam entered federal parliament in 1952 by winning the seat of Werriwa in a by-election. He kept this seat for 23 years, through eleven elections. He became Leader of the Opposition in 1967, and played a central role in getting the ALP re-elected to power, by modernising the policies of the party so as to appeal to the new generation of well-educated Baby Boomer voters (those born in the post World War II 'Baby Boom', who were young adults in the 1960s). Whitlam ... won the ALP widespread support for his policy of government funding for non-government schools and for reaching out to Asia as Opposition Leader.
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Edward Gough Whitlam (commonly known by his middle name - Gough) was born in Kew, Melbourne, on 11 July 1916. He was the first of two children of Harry FE Whitlam and Martha Maddocks. Harry joined the Commonwealth Public Service in Melbourne and rose to become the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor. The family moved to Sydney in 1918 and to Canberra in 1928.
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Edward Gough Whitlam was born on July 11, 1916, in Kew, an upper-class suburb of Melbourne, Australia. He dropped the "Edward" and was known usually as "Gough." His father, H.F.E. Whitlam, was Australian Crown Solicitor and Australia's representative on the United Nations' Human Rights Commission.
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Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC, was born in Melbourne in 1916 and was educated in Canberra and Sydney. He was elected to the House of Representatives in November 1952 and served for over 25 years, six as deputy leader and 11 as leader of the Australian Labor Party.
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