Loans affair
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The Loans affair, also called the Khemlani affair, was a political scandal involving the Whitlam government of Australia in 1975 in which it was accused of attempting to borrow money from the Middle E
Gough Whitlam at the Lodge 1974
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
Loans affair
…dismissed him from Cabinet altogether. A special one-day sitting of the House of Representatives was held on 9 July 1975 during which Prime Minister Gough Whitlam tabled the documents containing evidence about the loan and attempted to defend his government's actions. Beset by economic difficulties at the time…
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