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Gough Whitlam
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Gough Whitlam's personal records include records relating to his wife, Margaret. Various government departments will ... have created Commonwealth records relating to Margaret Whitlam in her role as spouse of the Prime Minister.
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Gough Whitlam’s famous speech following his dismissal as Prime Minister on 11 November 1975 - set to music in Airwaves: 100 Years of Radio. We’ll be playing the whole piece on 5 December. With video.
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Gough Whitlam applied to join the RAAF in December 1941. In the following May he was called up and underwent training as a navigator bomb-aimer; in 1943 he was posted to No. 13 Squadron RAAF. The squadron mostly operated out of the Northern Territory and from Dutch New Guinea, patrolling northern Australia, providing convoy escort, and attacking Japanese positions and shipping.
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Faulkner's dialogues with Gough are absorbing TV, yet it is wise for him to have called his documentary Gough Whitlam: In his Own Words. For it is very much a view of Gough as seen by Gough, who has never lacked vanity. Gough is without blemish, it would seem, in his own estimation. Watching and listening, the performance reveals a colossal but flawed ego, but one that captured, and continues to capture, the Australian imagination.
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WHEN the federal Government spent $1.3 million on Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles for the yet to be built National Gallery of Australia in 1973, the outcry stunned Gough Whitlam. Instead of welcoming the American masterpiece into the country's cultural treasure chest, as the prime minister expected, the purchase outraged Australia.
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For more than six decades in politics, Gough Whitlam has aimed at targets higher than personal success or vindication. His energy and enthusiasm combined with the continuing powerful relevance of his goals have made him a hero to many Australians and a towering figure in Australia's political landscape.
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