A picture of Gough Whitlam's voter declaration in the 2013 rank-and-file ballot for the federal ALP leadership.
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Three-part program on The Labor Years 1972-75, from the ABC TV series A New World (for sure).
Gough Whitlam has turned 97 years of age today.
Joan Child, the first female Labor member of the House of Representatives, and the first female Speaker, has died. She was 91.
Child was elected to the Melbourne electorate of Henty, centred around Oakleigh, in 1974. She had unsuccessfully contested the electorate in 1972.
She was defeated at the 1975 election and again in 1977. She returned to the House in 1980, securing re-election to Henty in 1983, 1984 and 1987.
Child became the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives in February 1986. She relinquished the position in August 1989, ahead of her retirement at the 1990 election.