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
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
William McMahon
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Sir William McMahon was an Australian politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, and previously he
Gough Whitlam
…Whitlam's downfall) a "bumptious bastard", and he said Bill Wentworth exhibited a "hereditary streak of insanity". After calling future prime minister William McMahon a "quean", he apologised. The ALP had been out of office since the Chifley Government's defeat in 1949 and, since 1951, had been under the leadership…
Official portrait, 1972
McMahon in 1950, as a newly elected backbencher
McMahon in 1963
McMahon with Prime Minister John Gorton shortly after McMahon's unsuccessful leadership challenge in 1969