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Royal Commission on Human Relationships – What do you think? Pamphlet

This record is a leaflet inviting the public to contribute to the 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships.

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Press release appointing Elizabeth Reid to the Prime Minister's staff.

Appointment of the first women's adviser to a Prime Minister

The Whitlam Government was the first government in the world to appoint an adviser on women’s affairs.

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Document titled ‘The First Year’, outlining the Whitlam Government's achievements in human and women's rights.

Labor Government's women's rights achievements after first year in office – statement by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam

In this document Whitlam restates his government’s ‘three great aims’, Addressing barriers to women’s advancement aligned with all three of these aims.

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Governor-General Sir John Kerr's statement of events regarding the dismissal of the Whitlam government.

Dismissal of the Whitlam government – Governor-General Sir John Kerr's statement of events

This is Governor-General Sir John Kerr's official written statement describing the events leading to the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

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Letter from the Speaker of the House on the Dismissal, 1975.

Letter on the dismissal of Gough Whitlam – from the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the Queen

A letter for the Queen sent from Gordon Scholes, the Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, about the dismissal of Gough Whitlam.

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Letter to Gough Whitlam from Sir John Kerr dismissing him as Prime Minister, 1975.

Letter to Gough Whitlam from Sir John Kerr dismissing him as Prime Minister, 1975

This is the letter that Governor-General Sir John Kerr handed to Gough Whitlam, terminating his appointment as Prime Minister of Australia on 11 November 1975.

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Cabinet Minute on decision to withdraw Australian forces from Vietnam 1971.

Cabinet decision to withdraw Australian forces from Vietnam, 1971

This is the record of a top secret federal Cabinet decision on 26 July 1971 to withdraw Australian forces from Vietnam.

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Part of a handwritten response to the Dismissal from Gough Whitlam

Response to the dismissal – draft notice of motion written by Gough Whitlam

This is the draft notice of a motion handwritten by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam at the Lodge on 11 November 1975.

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Gough Whitlam visiting Echo Wall during diplomatic trip to China.

Gough Whitlam visiting the Echo Wall on diplomatic trip to China

This is a black-and-white photograph of the Australian Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam during a trip to China between 31 October and 4 November 1973.