Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st prime minister of Australia,serving from 1972 to 1975. He was the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive administration that extraordinarily ended with his removal as prime minister after controversially being dismissed by the governor-general of Australia,Sir John Kerr,at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam is the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office.
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis,also known simply as the Dismissal,culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister,Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),by Governor-General Sir John Kerr,who then commissioned the leader of the Opposition,Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party,as prime minister. It has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history.
Sir John Robert Kerr was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th Governor-General of Australia,in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvement in the 1975 constitutional crisis,which culminated in his decision to dismiss the incumbent prime minister Gough Whitlam and appoint Malcolm Fraser as his replacement,unprecedented actions in Australian federal politics.
Francis Michael Forde was an Australian politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Australia from 6 to 13 July 1945,holding office as the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was prime minister in a caretaker capacity directly following the death of prime minister John Curtin,and is the shortest-serving prime minister in Australia's history.
Simon Findlay Crean is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was the Member of Parliament for Hotham from 1990 to 2013,representing the Labor Party,and served as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke,Keating,Rudd and Gillard governments. He was the Leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2001 to December 2003.
Kim Edward Beazley was an Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1945 to 1977,representing the Labor Party. He was Minister for Education in the Whitlam government from 1972 to 1975.
Laurence John "Laurie" Brereton is an Australian former politician who was a state minister,a federal member of cabinet,and kingmaker in the election of several Australian Labor Party leaders,including Paul Keating and Mark Latham. He was a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1990 to October 2004,representing the Division of Kingsford Smith,New South Wales. He is credited with building Sydney's controversial monorail.
Lionel Frost BowenAC was an Australian politician and senior Labor Party figure,serving in the ministries of Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1990.
The Division of Grayndler is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
Albert Jaime Grassby,AM was an Australian politician who served as Minister for Immigration in the Labor Whitlam government. He completed reforms in immigration and human rights,and is often known as the father of Australian "multiculturalism". He gained notoriety by acting as an agent of influence for the Calabrian criminal network that murdered anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay.
Edward John Ward was an Australian politician who represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in federal parliament for over 30 years. He was the member for East Sydney for all but six-and-a-half weeks from 1931 until his death in 1963. He served as a minister in the Curtin and Chifley governments from 1941 to 1949,and was also known for his role in the ALP split of 1931.
Steven John Chaytor is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 2005 to 2007,representing the southwest Sydney electorate of Macquarie Fields.
The Whitlam government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party. The government commenced when Labor defeated the McMahon government at the 1972 federal election,ending a record 23 years of continuous Coalition government. It was terminated by Governor-General Sir John Kerr following the 1975 constitutional crisis and was succeeded by the Fraser government—the sole occasion in Australian history when an elected federal government was dismissed by the head of state.
Francis Eugene "Frank" Stewart,Australian politician and rugby league footballer,was a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing Lang between 1953 and 1977 and subsequently Grayndler between 1977 and 1979 for the Australian Labor Party.
The 2005 Werriwa by-election was held in the Australian electorate of Werriwa in south-western Sydney on 19 March 2005,after the resignation of Labor MP Mark Latham,who had represented the electorate since 1994. Latham had been federal Opposition Leader since 2 December 2003 and led Labor to defeat at the 2004 election. He had become increasingly dissatisfied with politics and was struggling with recurring pancreatitis. He announced his resignation from parliament on 18 January 2005.
Grant Anthony McBride was an Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of The Entrance on the New South Wales Central Coast for the Labor Party between 1992 and 2011.
The 1974 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 18 May 1974. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives and all 60 seats in the Senate were up for election,due to a double dissolution. The incumbent Labor Party led by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam defeated the opposition Liberal–Country coalition led by Billy Snedden. This marked the first time that a Labor leader won two consecutive elections.
Jason Dean Clare is an Australian politician serving as Minister for Education since 1 June 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has represented the Division of Blaxland in Western Sydney since 2007.
Matthew James Thistlethwaite is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2013,representing the electorate of Kingsford Smith. He was formerly a member of the Australian Senate from 2011 to 2013. Since 1 June 2022,Thistlethwaite has served as Assistant Minister for Defence,Veterans' Affairs and the Republic in the ministry of Anthony Albanese.
Melissa Iris McIntosh is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Liberal Party and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2019 federal election,running in the New South Wales seat of Lindsay.
