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1975 Gough Whitlam Election Propaganda Money

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Election money has been around for many years.

Billy Sneddon as leader of the Liberal Party after Billy McMahon was distributing these notes as a part of the anti-Labor campaign in 1975.

There were many different notes released over the years and this is a very fine example given that its age is more than 40 years.

The cartoon characterization depicts Gough Whitlam and points out the devaluation of the Australian dollar during the Labour party’s term of office.

The election would never be held due to Gough’s dismissal by the Governor General John Kerr which in turn created a double disolution of the Houses of Parliament and left Australia rudderless and without a government.

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153mm x 77mm

Clean and crisp and near new condition.

History

Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC (born 11 July 1916) is an Australian politician who was the 21st Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975 and the Leader of the Labor Party from 1967 to 1977. Whitlam led Labor to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election; he went on to win the 1974 election before being controversially dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian Prime Minister to have his commission terminated in that manner.

Whitlam was first elected to Parliament in 1952, representing Werriwa in the House of Representatives. He became Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in 1960, and in 1967, after the retirement of Arthur Calwell, he was elected Leader and became the Leader of the Opposition. After narrowly losing the 1969 election, Whitlam led Labor to victory at the 1972 election after 23 years of continuous Liberal-Country Coalition Government.

The Whitlam Government implemented a large number of new programs and policy changes, including the elimination of military conscription and criminal execution, institution of universal health care and fee-free university education, and the implementation of legal aid programs. With the Opposition-controlled Senate delaying passage of laws, Whitlam called a double-dissolution election in 1974 which he went on to win, albeit with a slightly reduced majority. However, the Opposition continued to control the Senate, and after becoming emboldened by government scandals and a flagging economy, began to challenge Whitlam again. In late 1975, the Senate prevented the progress of appropriation bills, thus denying the Government supply. Whitlam refused to back down, arguing that his elected Government was being held to ransom by the Senate. The crisis ended on 11 November, when Governor-General Sir John Kerr controversially dismissed Whitlam and commissioned Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister. Labor lost the subsequent election by a landslide.

Whitlam stepped down after losing again at the 1977 election, retiring from Parliament in 1978. Upon the election of the Hawke Government in 1983, he was appointed as the Australian Ambassador to UNESCO, and remained active in public life well into his nineties. The circumstances of his dismissal as Prime Minister, and the legacy of his government, remain a large part of Australian political discourse.

*all history taken from Wikipedia for educational purposes

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