Whitlam, Edward Gough (Rt Hon), 1916-2014

Whitlam, Gough, 1916-2014

Australian Prime Minister (Labour) 1972-1975. Died 21 Oct 2014 See Dominion Post Obituaries (Saturday, October 25, 2014, C3).

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Bromhead, Peter :"Deighton" cartoons from New Zealand News Ltd, 1972/1973

Date: 1972 - 1973

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; New Zealand News Ltd

Reference: A-297-037/066

Description: Includes cartoons relating to Hanoi, Nixon and Kissinger, December 1972 rent freeze, etc Quantity: 29 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper or card

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :Disgraceful! The way the neighbours are quarrelling! 1...

Date: 1969

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-874

Description: The scene is of the exterior of two neighbouring houses, with similar fences and letterboxes with milk bottles at the gateway. Out of one window lean Keith Holyoake and Norman Kirk. Holyoake thinks that the noise coming from next door is most disturbing. He holds a copy of his elections plans. Kirk thinks it sounds like sweet music - Labour swing music. The neighbours are the Australians, Gough Whitlam and John Gorton. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, Chinese white, black and yellow letratone, crayon and pencil, 262 x 364 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'Hold it O'Malley! He says you didn't let him finish hi...

Date: 1972

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-243

Description: This cartoon shows a scene at Australian Customs in Sydney. Prime Minister Jack Marshall has been seized by two police officers, one in uniform and one in plain clothes. A customs officer has seized his briefcase and put it in a bucket of water marked 'fire', but a second customs officer is trying to stop him by telling him that the bag contained a bomb protest rather than a bomb. Extended Title - Mr. Marshall arrives in Australia today where he is expected to discuss Australia's reluctance to support protests against French nuclear tests with the Australian P.M. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 318 x 398 mm Provenance: Donation: .

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Miscellaneous Polynesia, SPC, etc & Mara, Whitlam, Isle of Pines, Albert Henry

Date: 1968, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981; Date unknown

From: Hancock, Kathleen Montagu, 1915-2004: Collection

Reference: PAColl-10670-005

Description: Colour and black and white photographic prints relating to various Pacific Island locations, including portraits, some with caption inscriptions verso. Dated November 1968, September 1972, August 1975, November 1977, October 1979, and 1981. Includes: - "Old war canoe on New Georgia, Solomon Islands" - "Relics of Pacific war, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is[lands]" - Roadside stall, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands" - "Agnes Kera, proprietor of Guest house at Munda, New Georgia (daughter of Norman Wheatley, ist trader in area)" - "Malu [Malu'u] Village, Malaita" - "Transport in the Highlands of Fiji" - "Indian women cooks roti (chappatti) for breakfast on primus under the house, Ba, Fiji (Lakshmi Badhu - my hostess)" - "K. H. [Kathleen Hancock] on rim of the crater, Tanna, New Hebrides (Yasur Volcano)" - "Fishermen on the beach. Utumea, American Samoa" - "Rarotonga, C.I. [Cook Islands]", depicts Titikaveka Church. - "Queensland bush at Wile's property, Bunya Rd. Eumundi" - "Aggie's Pool - Apia" - "Rarotonga Airport" - "Va'ai plantation, W. Samoa" - "Loyalty Island, New Caledonia" - portrait of "Tom Charley Eouta [Euta] village, Tongoa - New Hebrides" - portrait of "Stuart Inder, past editor, Pacific Is[land] Monthly" - portrait of "Don Stewart, S. F. C. Tahiti" - "Children at Honolulu, Hawaii" - "Ratu Sir Kamisese preparing to drink the ceremonial cup of yaqona - wearing the ceremonial (masi) turban" - "Family portrait at Veiuto, Suva" - "Mara talking with Gough Whitlam, former president of Australia at Vietuto in "The Bure", 10 Feb[ruary] 1981" - "Otago University Capping Band celebrating VE + VJ Days 1945 - all musicians fellow students in Mara's medical class" - "Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara former P.M. Fiji and (Sir) Albert Henry former P.M. Cook Islands" - "Ratu Sir Kamisese & Lady Mara with President of Botswana & Lady Khama, Commonwealth Conference, Singapore, 1971, Sir Seretse Khama [(1921-1980)] & Mara student friends at Oxford" - "The [Hotel] 'Relais de Kanumera' from the air - Isle of Pines, New Caledonia". Title supplied by Library. Original enclosure annotated "Miscellaneous Polynesia, SPC, etc & Mara, Whitlam, Isle of Pines, Albert Henry". Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s). 12 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Black and white and colour hotographic prints. Transfers: Printed matter originally enclosed with photographic prints at Library reference MS-Papers-12478.. Processing information: Printed matter was separated from prints and rehoused for reasons of preservation and storage.

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Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :O.K. Norm, we've finished! Now you'd better step on it! Aucklan...

Date: 1972

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-061

Description: Norman Kirk's government started on 8 December 1972. He is seen here driving a tarsealing machine (N.Z. Parliamentary Sealing Unit) along an airport runway. A man on the back is picking up the sign saying 'Slow men at work' and instructing Kirk to hurry up as a large jumbo jet labelled The Whitlam Jumbo Image is about to land. Whitlam was the Australian Prime Minister at the time. Extended Title - N.Z. parliamentary sealing unit. Slow men at work. The Whitlam jumbo image. Two man crew. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, ink wash, Chinese white on watercolour paper, 248 x 337 mm

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Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons for the "Dominion" concerning overseas politics a...

Date: 1974 - 1975

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: C-132-326/349

Description: Includes cartoons about the Arab hijackers, British elections, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, child victims of war, Gerald Ford toppling President Richard Nixon, withdrawal of NZ government support for CORSO, British nuclear testing, Nixon's demise and resignation, Hugh Watt, the spectre of Watergate, world food crisis, Gough Whitlam (Australian PM) flies to Britain, Mrs Thatcher's ambition for almost royal power in Britain, Richard Nixon dancing with Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra, hijacking of planes, Idi Amin, Egypt at war, Indonesia and East Timor, Razak and Malaysia. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged at around the estimated date. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 24 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Cartoons for the Evening Post, 1974]

Date: 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-134-508/568

Description: Cartoons commenting on social and political life in 1974 including power cuts, crime, the economy, cricket, rugby, the British goverment and nuclear testing by France, India and China. Quantity: 60 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings Provenance: Donation:

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Bromhead, Peter, 1933- : Hullo....there's somebody else sticking in another little clou...

Date: 1972 - 1973

From: Various cartoonists :Cartoons from the New Zealand News, 1970s

Reference: A-297-006

Description: A small figure stands below a large black cloud labelled 'The Springbok Tour' to which another small black cloud labelled 'no landing rights' is about to be added by Gough Whitlam, the Australian Prime Minister. Australia was adding to the difficulties that surrounded the 1973 Springbok tour to New Zealand by withdrawing the teams' landing rights in Australia. Extended Title - The Springbok Tour. No landing rights. Whitlam. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, Chinese white on watercolour paper, 248 x 335 mm

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Photographs relating to Butcher's political career

Date: [ca 1963], 1978-1990

From: Butcher, David John, 1948- : Photographs, chiefly relating to Butcher's political career

By: Baker, Greg, active 1990; Bremford, Margo, active 1990

Reference: PAColl-10330

Description: Photographs collected by David Butcher, chiefly relating to his political career. Images taken circa 1963, and 1978-1990, by a range of photographers. - Contains images of Butcher alone, with his wife Mary Hall, and with colleagues. Many of the images are posed and appear to be for publicity purposes. Also includes an image of Labour MP Mike Moore and his wife Yvonne Moore. - Proof sheets showing portraits of David Butcher. One of them is of Butcher and his sister as teenagers [ca 1963?], his face has been removed from two of these images (as though for use in an identity document). Individual prints showing head and shoulder portraits of Butcher. - Other proof sheets and individual prints contain images of Butcher with colleagues. - Images of Butcher, Mary Hall, and the New Zealand Ambassador meeting with Ministers and dignitaries in Bahrain. - Also includes one image of a baby sitting on the floor with a wrapped present and a balloon, the annotation on the reverse identifies the baby as being "Jim Cladd's son Stephen" [possibly refers to New Zealand-American Diplomat James C Clad]. Quantity: 4 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets with 70 images. 2 colour original photographic print(s). 24 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 colour original photographic print(s). 1 b/w laser print.

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Journal

Date: 1 Feb 1972-26 Mar 1973

From: Ford, John D (Captain), 1937-2012: Papers relating to career in Calibration Flight

Reference: MS-Papers-11824-023

Description: Journal entries chiefly covering career in Calibration Flight, including the visit of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam to New Zealand. Journal entries also include information regarding personal and family life. Also includes newspaper clippings primarily on aeronautical topics. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed material

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Inward and outward correspondence (b)

Date: [1971-1974]

From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5921-038

Description: Much of the file is business-related correspondence and includes correspondence with the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia, Dept of Harbours & Marine, City Planning Dept of Sydney, Leader of the Opposition, Embassy of Yugoslavia, Minister of Customs, Consulate General of the USA, District Employment Office, German Consulate, `The Review', `The Australian' re population, Spectrum, Corporation of the City of Adelaide re vacancy for consultants, Cairns Town Council, Patrick (Noose), Bob Hawke of ACTU, NZ Consul, Roger Bush of Broadcasting Station 2GB to Lyn Smith re long hair, Telephone Service, NSW Police, `The Australian' re RSL accusing Strewe of Nazism, and `Sydney Morning Herald' re same, Dept of Labour and National Service, Sydney Women's Sports Assn, City of Perth council, Commonwealth Dept of Immigration Foreign Language Interviewers information sheet; and clippings and other papers (identified persons entered under Name). Strewe's letters mostly written from Coogee. Arrangement: Part (b) of folder labelled `Australian correspondence'; first part at MS-Papers-5921-037 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, postcards and printed matter

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Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons for the "Dominion" concerning former Prime Minist...

Date: 1970 - 1977

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: B-145-294/311

Description: Includes cartoons about: the economic situation in N.Z.; Mr Rowling warning the P.M. about pessimistic comments on the economy; Muldoon seeing the world as a giant piggy bank; free contraceptive pills; newspaper strikes; leaders of the South Pacific arrive for `getting to know you' talks; Muldoon stirring up politics; debate over the Rangitara; talks with Margaret Thatcher; TV 2 replaces sheduled show for an interview with Muldoon; democratic socialism; trade with Europe and the EEC; the budget 1977; beggining of the 1978 election campaign; Muldoon the bully; 5% tax cut overshadowed by continual rising prices; the P.M. in America; concern from China over Russian presence in the South Pacific. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged according to estimated dates. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by the artist. Quantity: 18 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 350 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'Wow! I hope Bill Rowling doesn't go the same way!' 1975

Date: 1975

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-695

Description: This cartoon is set in the office of the deputy prime minister and finance minister Bob Tizard. He has a filing cabinet full of interest payments due and a board full of overseas borrowings from diferent places. A graph behind him shows borrowing up and income down. He is reading a newspaper report that Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam has sacked his deputy for his overseas loan-raising activities and is concerned that Prime Minister Rowling doesn't do the same to him Label on verso dated Thur 3/7/75 Other Titles - Atlas of unexplored money areas Other Titles - Interest payments due Extended Title - Whitlam sacks deputy for overseas loan-raising activities Inscriptions: Pencil dated lower right hand corner 3/7//75 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 318 x 388 mm

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'The next door neighbour must be going away for Easter ...

Date: 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Sports post (Newspaper)

Reference: B-134-661

Description: This cartoon relates to the sacking of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by the Governor General. It features Prime Minister Kirk and Deputy Prime Minister Hugh Watt in a suburban house. Watt is dressed as a woman and is sitting and reading Good Housekeeping. Through the window, in the next house, Whitlam can be seen, packing furiously Published in the Sports Post Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 392 x 352 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:Australian political upheaval could not happen here. 1975

Date: 1975

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-693

Description: This cartoon features Prime Minister Rowling anxiously reading a newspaper article about the Australian Governor General dismissing the Whitlam government. He decides to take the New Zealand Governor General a bottle of whisky but when he gets there Opposition leader Muldoon is just leaving having already given him a bottle of whisky Label on verso dated Thur 13/11/75 Inscriptions: Pencil dated lower right hand corner 13/11/75 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 320 x 378 mm

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'Gough Whitlam I presume.' 1975

Date: 1975

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-794

Description: This cartoon features a landslide. A battered Bill Rowling (whose government has just been defeated in a general election) is peering out from between the rocks. Another landslide has just come down and two legs can be seen poking out. Bill Rowling is saying hello to Gough Whitlam Label on recto dated Mon 15/12/75 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 320 x 390 mm

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Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons for the "Dominion" concerning the New Zealand's d...

Date: 1973 - 1979

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 boxes of cartoons drawn for the "Dominion", 1970-1980s?].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: C-132-119/136

Description: Includes cartoons on French testing in the Pacific, Dr Martin Finlay's case against French nuclear testing in the International Court, New Zealand attitudes to the French, the navy ship "Otago", a nuclear-free zone in the Pacific proposed, Mr Gough Whitlam's talk against nuclear build-up, the connection between nuclear tests and the eruption of mountains, effects of nuclear testing on the environment, dumping of nuclear waste in the Antarctic, South Africa's nuclear tests. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by artist. Quantity: 18 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 510 x 595 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'For my first act - an imitation of Gough Whitlam!' 1974

Date: 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-522

Description: This cartoon features the newly-appointed Finance Minister (after Kirk's death) as a magician on a stage. He is going to saw a woman in a box labelled N.Z. Dollar in half. An audience is looking on. Other Titles - Tizard the Wizard - juggler, musician, impersonator, conjuror Extended Title - Only 15 days after being appointed Minister of Finance, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Tizard) faces his first big test. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon, newspaper clipping and letratone, 318 x 396 mm

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:'I understand he lost his job because he didn't have th...

Date: 1975

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-694

Description: This cartoon is about the sacking of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by the Australian Governor General. It features him angrily leaving an Australian house. His briefcase, with the PM on it crossed out, is being thrown after him by a regally robed hand. Behind the fence New Zealand Prime Minister Bill Rowling and Deputy Bob Tizard are discussing the sacking which was apparently as a result of a financial crisis and Tizard expresses surprise that he hadn't heard of borrowing to maintain employment Label on verso dated Wed 12/11/75 Extended Title - 'Good heavens! Hadn't he heard of borrowing to maintain employment?' Inscriptions: Pencil dated lower right hand corner 12/11/75 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 322 x 378 mm

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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989:Whitlam gamble nearly costs Labour Party office - just ...

Date: 1974

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-134-552

Description: This cartoon features Prime Minister Norman Kirk talking to his Deputy Hugh Watt favourably comparing his government's majority to the election result in Australia where Gough Whitlam just scraped in. He has his hand on a chair labelled Seat of Government though which springs have broken through labelled Higher Taxes, Rising Costs, Inflation and Industrial Muddle. A man and a woman labelled The Vote are looking on and complaining that if Kirk doesn't do some recovering he won't be so comfortable next year. Other Titles - The seat of government Inscriptions: Pencil dated lrh corner21/5 Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 280 x 406 mm