History judges Gough Whitlam got China and Vietnam right - and East Timor tragically wrong. Whitlam ended military conscription and formally withdrew Australia from the Vietnam War; he switched ...
Gough Whitlam was Labor’s first PM for 23 years, but decades of post-war boom meant Australians were unaccustomed to economic gloom. In the election immediately after Whitlam’s infamous 1975 ...