CANBERRA, Australia—Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, a fierce proponent of rights for indigenous Australians and the first Western leader to recognize communist China, died Tuesday aged ...

In August 1975, the Whitlam Government handed back a parcel of Gurindji Country to Traditional Owers - an act prompted by an eight year protest.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — 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 ...

Politics, Independence and the National Interest: the legacy of power and how to achieve a peaceful Western Pacific I am honoured to be asked to make this speech. During the turbulent years of the ...

Gough Whitlam poured sand into the hands of Vincent Lingiari 50 years ago, marking the first Aboriginal community to be given land back from the Commonwealth — but Gurindji leaders say more still ...

This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the November 11, 1975 dismissal of the Australian Labor government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by Governor-General John Kerr, the official ...

He was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the ...

In August 1975, a man called HC "Nugget" Coombs and then-prime minister Gough Whitlam sat in the back of a plane. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article ...