Woodward Park to the west is the main sporting precinct containing a number of outdoor playing fields and the Whitlam Leisure Centre, hosting a swimming pool and a 3000-seat indoor sports stadium.

Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in Sydney, Australia running from Whitlam Square on the south-east corner of Hyde Park in the central business district of Sydney to Bondi Junction in the Eastern Suburbs.

Gough Whitlam Park is a large recreational area, beside Cooks River.

* Gough Whitlam Park and Waterworth reserve are on Bayview Avenue near Tempe station.

An illustrative example is the Australian constitutional crises of 1975, when the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on his own reserve power authority and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser.

* Dismissal — some constitutions allow a Head of state ( or their designated representative, as is the case in Commonwealth countries ) to dismiss a Head of government, though its use can be controversial, as occurred in 1975 when then Australian Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in the Australian Constitutional Crisis.

Thus the current Albury-Wodonga population of approximately 104, 609 residents is far below the 300, 000 projected by Whitlam in the 1970s, a figure unlikely to ever be realised.

In 1970, Whitlam, as Leader of the Opposition, had stated of a budget bill, " Let me make it clear at the outset that our opposition to this Budget is no mere formality.

In April 1974, faced with attempts by the Opposition to obstruct supply ( that is, appropriation bills ) in the Senate, Whitlam obtained the concurrence of the Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck, to a double dissolution.

I generally believe if a government is elected to power in the lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the three-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene ... Having said that ... if we do make up our minds at some stage that the Government is so reprehensible that an Opposition must use whatever power is available to it, then I'd want to find a situation in which ... Mr. Whitlam woke up one morning finding the decision had been made and finding that he had been caught with his pants well and truly down.

The most common allegation is that the CIA influenced Kerr's decision to dismiss Whitlam.

He is the son of Frank Crean, a federal Labor MP from 1951 to 1977, who was at separate times Treasurer, Trade Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister in the Gough Whitlam government, and the brother of Dr David Crean, a former Labor member of the Parliament of Tasmania.

Various ideological beliefs were factionalised under reforms to the ALP under Gough Whitlam, resulting in what is now known as the Socialist Left who tend to favour a more interventionist economic policy, more authoritative top-down controls and some socially progressive ideals, and Labor Right, the now dominant faction that is pro-business, more economically liberal and focuses to a lesser extent on social issues.

Cook is the only Prime Minister up to Gough Whitlam who does not have a federal electorate named after him.

Junie Morosi ( born 26 July 1933 ) is an Australian businesswoman, who became a public figure in the 1970s through her relationship with Jim Cairns, Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam Labor government.

Werriwa is best remembered for being the electorate ( 1952-78 ) of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

The First Whitlam Ministry in Australia is sometimes called the " Duumvirate " because it consisted entirely of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, and his deputy, Lance Barnard, who between them split up all ministerial and quasi-ministerial positions for two weeks in December 1972.

He is one of only six former federal politicians to have served on the Federal Court, along with Robert Ellicott, Nigel Bowen, Tony Whitlam, Merv Everett and John Reeves.

At its south-eastern end is the Glebe Estate, an area of Housing Commission properties purchased by the government of Gough Whitlam as a massive urban renewal project to provide public housing for the needy.

His resignation in 1975 was followed by Labor's heavy defeat in the Bass by-election, which is seen as the beginning of the end of the Whitlam government.

The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 ( RDA ) is a statute passed by the Australian Parliament during the Prime Ministership of Labor Gough Whitlam.

He is an ardent defender of Sir John Kerr, and highly critical of Gough Whitlam.

* In 1975 the Whitlam government refused to support Speaker Jim Cope when he named government minister Clyde Cameron for disrespect to the Chair: normally this would have resulted in the minister's suspension from the House.

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, for whom the band was named, announced the winning news on air.

It is named after the former Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam.

In 1971, shortly after he had switched his country's diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China, the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, visited Japan.

Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr appointed Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister after dismissing Gough Whitlam.

Whitlam was dismissive and after the meeting broke, telephoned Kerr to tell him that he needed an appointment to advise him to hold a half-Senate election.

Nonetheless, Whitlam, who began campaigning almost immediately after the dismissal, was met with huge crowds wherever he went ; 30, 000 people overspilled the Sydney Domain for the official campaign launch on 24 November.

Whitlam resigned as ALP leader after the party suffered its second successive electoral defeat in 1977.

Cairns first became aware of what was to become known as the Loans Affair three days after being appointed Treasurer, on the 13th of December 1974, when he entered at the end of a meeting of the Labor Party federal executive at the Lodge, Whitlam explained the situation and requested that Cairns co-sign approval for the loan.

Whitlam returned from overseas on 19 January 1975 and on 27 January 1975, Connor's authority to borrow the loan was reinstated without consultation with Cairns as Treasurer, who found out after the fact.

When Whitlam resigned as Labor leader after his defeat at the 1977 election, Bowen contested the party leadership but was defeated by Bill Hayden and became Deputy Leader.

The Fraser Government subsequently enacted the Aboriginal Land Rights Act in 1976, after its drafting by the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975.

It is worth noting that every Prime Minister since Gough Whitlam has had their tree destroyed soon after planting, and the trees representing these Prime Ministers were re-planted later.

This precedent was followed after Dixon's death, when then-Governor-General Sir John Kerr sought advice from Dixon's successor Sir Garfield Barwick CJ before controversially dismissing the Labor Government under Gough Whitlam in 1975.

Button became part of the interim Advisory Council which took over the branch after intervention, and in 1974 he was elected to the Australian Senate as a strong supporter of Whitlam.

In a press conference after the withdrawal of his commission, Whitlam inadvertently highlighted this option when he told reporters:

The Greens WA grew out of the growing counter-cultural, environmental, social and political concerns after the fall of the Whitlam government, particularly articulated by Jim Cairns in the Down to Earth movement that saw community sustainability emerging as an important issue.

Stephens has been an active ALP member since joining after the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975.

He opposed Howard's policy on asylum-seekers, campaigned in support of an Australian Republic and attacked what he perceived as a lack of integrity in Australian politics, together with former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, finding much common ground with his predecessor.

In February 2008, Keating joined former prime ministers Whitlam, Fraser and Hawke in Parliament House, Canberra, to witness the parliamentary apology to the Stolen Generations.

Whitlam's former solicitor-general Robert Ellicott, now a Liberal member of the House, issued a legal opinion on 16 October stating that the Governor-General had the power to dismiss Whitlam, and should do so forthwith if Whitlam could not state how he would obtain supply.

" The dismissal concluded with Kerr wishing Whitlam luck in the election, and offering his hand, which the former Prime Minister took.

In 1987, he established an investment banking firm, Whitlam Turnbull & Co Ltd, in partnership with Neville Wran ( former Labor Premier of New South Wales ) and the former State Bank of New South Wales chief executive, Nicholas Whitlam ( son of Gough Whitlam, former Labor Prime Minister of Australia ).

Mike Rann with former United States Deputy Secretary of State | US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick in November 2005 Former Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam with wife Margaret at the wedding of Mike Rann and Sasha Carruozzo in July 2006

He was also a research assistant to the former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, which included working on the latter's book The Whitlam Government.

Latham with mentor, former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, at an election fundraiser in Melbourne, September 2004

The excerpts published include attacks by Latham on the ALP, his successor Kim Beazley, frontbencher Kevin Rudd and former Labor prime ministers Paul Keating and Gough Whitlam.

Delivering the 2008 Gough Whitlam Lecture at Sydney University on The Reforming Centre of Australian Politics, Rudd praised the former Labor Prime Minister for implementing educational reforms, saying he was :... a kid who lived Gough Whitlam's dream that every child should have a desk with a lamp on it where he or she could study.

A state funeral was held on 25 June ; many state and federal politicians ( from both major parties ) attended, including Liberal Prime Minister John Howard, all the state Premiers, Opposition Leader Mark Latham, former Opposition Leader Simon Crean, and former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

# Gough Whitlam, former Prime Minister of Australia