A federal election was held in Australia on 13 December 1975. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives and all 64 seats in the Senate were up for election, due to a double dissolution.
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Gough Whitlam
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Edward Gough Whitlam 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, he was notable for
1975 Australian federal election
…Senate were up for election, due to a double dissolution. Malcolm Fraser had been commissioned as caretaker prime minister following the dismissal of Gough Whitlam's three-year-old Labor government by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, on 11 November 1975. The same day, Fraser advised an immediate double dissolution…
Official portrait, 1974
"Ngara", Whitlam's birthplace (now demolished)
Photograph of Whitlam and attestation paper from his RAAF officer personnel file dated 1942
Gough Whitlam in Cooktown, Queensland, in 1944