Gough would have loved it. Not surprisingly, really, because as acknowledged by Kerry O'Brien, the MC of the Whitlam Memorial Ceremony held at Sydney Town Hall, he pretty much organised it.

The popular response to Gough Whitlam’s death tells us more about the politics of the present than the past. Whitlam has been cast as a messiah; as Labor’s saviour; and as the slayer of what ...

Former prime minister Gough Whitlam, the reformist Labor leader who was famously dismissed from his post in 1975, has died aged 98. Tributes poured in from political figures this morning ...

It’s four decades since the tumultuous Whitlam government, and his large handprint is still all over modern Australia. Whitlam was… Gough Whitlam: a man for his times whose mark is on our times ...

Gough Whitlam has been lauded as a visionary and a "giant" by senior politicians from both major parties, as federal MPs devote the sitting day to paying tribute to the former Labor prime minister.

Gough Whitlam swept to political power in Australia in 1972 under a slogan, "it's time," that seemed to sum up everything that was stale and old-fashioned about an inward-looking, parochial nation.

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, whose government was credited with instituting lasting social reforms during a short tenure that ended in a bitter constitutional crisis, died ...

Edward Gough Whitlam, politician: born Melbourne 11 July 1916; married 1942 Margaret Elaine Dovey (died 2012; one daughter, three sons); died Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales 21 October 2014.

Former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam has been remembered as a visionary and a giant of federal politics by figures across the political spectrum. Mr Whitlam led the country through a ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Gough Whitlam, a flamboyant Australian prime minister and controversial social reformer whose grip on power was cut short by a bitter constitutional crisis, died Tuesday at ...

Gough Whitlam, whose 1972 election as Australia’s prime minister ushered in some of the most sweeping policy and social reforms in the country’s history before his dramatic and controversial ...