Fifty years of time

Under the campaign slogan ‘It’s Time’, Gough Whitlam led the Labor party back to government fifty years ago today, on December 2 1972, after 23 years in opposition. Three tumultuous years of crisis and transformation followed, and Australia would never be the same again.

Portents and echoes from Whitlam to Albanese

A new Labor government takes office, threatened by a global recession, seeking a new start with China, and worried by war in a ‘time of entrenched geopolitical competition and stark divisions’ – A tough menu confronted Gough Whitlam’s government when it won office on 2 December 1972.