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One of the closest, but also most loyal, friend to former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was a Greek wrestler. George Gouliova arrived in Australia in 1974 and until 1981 was crowned ...

At a critical moment for the US, Australian culture has won a small victory -- and there is scope for an even more important ...

Steven Miles congratulates David Crisafulli, who is set to become Queensland’s next premier after only his party’s second ...

Since the 1920s, the ACLU has been involved in virtually all of the landmark speech cases to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. In a landmark 1997 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the ACLU’s ...

The 'disgraceful' speech angered many voters with some LNP ... Mr Crisafulli then quoted former Labor Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. 'To borrow a phrase from a different era and a different ...

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Gough Whitlam (fourth from left) led a historic Australian delegation to China in 1971 A young Australian researcher was having a late-morning drink in a Canberra pub in 1971 when he received a ...

Every new government since Gough Whitlam’s has gone backwards at its first election ... at which he will give headland ...

Federal Labor, under Gough Whitlam, introduced free education but ended it under ... Between now and the election, he is ...

So, I did an analysis for STAT News about seven years ago, looking at the complexity of his speech from when he was in his 40s to when he was running for president back in 2016. And at that time ...