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.

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 ...

Gough Whitlam, Australia's 21st prime minister, is remembered at a national memorial service in Sydney as a giant of politics and a man who devoted his talents to public service.

Gough Whitlam was so enraged at being dismissed by the Governor-General that he waged a bitter months-long 'smear campaign'. Sir John Kerr sacked the Labor PM on November 11, 1975, after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Gough Whitlam, who has died aged 98, was prime minister of Australia for three frantic years until he was sacked without warning by Sir John Kerr, the governor-general, just before lunch on ...

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 ...

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.