Journalist Tom McIlroy couldn’t go wrong with such sexy material, so, despite being his first book, Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the Painting That Changed a Nation is an ...

"Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister when I entered Parliament in 1974. His ready wit, eloquence and prodigious recall gave him an easy mastery of the Parliamentary arena," he said in a statement.

Because Mollison did not have the authority to sign off on purchases over $1 million, then-prime minister Gough Whitlam gave the sign-off, and more controversially decided the $1.3 million price ...

Fifty years ago, Mollison caused a public storm when the-then prime minister Gough Whitlam authorised the purchase of Blue poles, showcasing Pollock’s “drip” technique, for what was then a ...

Gough Whitlam's preserved Cabramatta family home unveiled as Anthony Albanese marks 50 years since 'It's Time' victory Anthony Albanese has marked 50 years since Gough Whitlam's election victory ...

Sky News host Rowan Dean says the “whole world of woke” began with former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam. “Whitlam, the ‘Grandaddy of Woke’,” Mr Dean said.

Gough Whitlam was “pissed off that the whole of his government would be judged” over its sensational November 11, 1975, sacking by governor-general Sir John Kerr, his son, Tony Whitlam, has ...

While Menzies’ official portrait lacks the German expressionism of Whitlam’s, his eyebrows come alive with movement, gravitas, and hints of a flipped Nike swoosh. 2. John Howard ...

Ben Heller, an influential New York art collector and dealer best known for his early embrace of Abstract Expressionism and the sale of one of its masterworks to an Australian museum, which caused ...

Colour field painting is a style of abstract expressionism that originated in New York City in the 1940s, through artists Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, among others.

Yet Whitlam stood by his decision, even plastering “Blue Poles” on his prime ministerial Christmas card to MPs. In 1976, after he had been relegated to the opposition benches, he told parliament: ...

Barrett argues that in the early-1970s the painting came to symbolise for supporters the Whitlam Government’s progressive, politically modernist government, while detractors saw it as emblematic ...