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For John Grey Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia, who died on 19 May 2002 in St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, with his ardent nationalism and "ordinary bloke" image, seems likely to be cast in the folk-hero tradition as he has become regarded more as a man just slightly ahead of his time, rather than the maverick many of his opponents and ...
John Gorton was the Prime Minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971. Sir John Gorton at the opening of Old Parliament House Museum, 1993. NAA: A6135, K27/4/93/50. After losing the prime ministership, John Grey Gorton remained in parliament until the double dissolution of 11 November 1975. He served as Minister of Defence in William McMahon’s ...
27 apr 2022 · Australia's 19th prime minister, John Gorton, faced public opposition to the Vietnam War, but expanded health care and social services. He served as prime minister from 10 January 1968 to 10 March ...
After the Liberal Party elected Senator John Gorton as the new Party leader, he was sworn in as Prime Minister. As a Senator, he had to resign his seat and then win a seat in the House of Representatives. Gorton was elected to Harold Holt’s former seat of Higgins in a by-election on 24 February 1968.
Liberal/Country coalition. The 1969 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 25 October 1969. The incumbent Liberal–Country coalition government, led by Prime Minister John Gorton, won the election with a severely diminished majority over the opposition Labor Party, led by Gough Whitlam despite losing the two party popular vote.
During John Grey Gorton’s term as Prime Minister (10 January 1968 – 10 March 1971), matters of defence were prominent. In domestic matters, the Australian Council for the Arts, the Australian Film Development Corporation and the National Film and Television Training School were established. Rates of pay were standardised between the sexes ...
John Gorton was 29, married, and had completed an MA at Oxford when he joined the RAAF in late 1940. He trained as a pilot and served in Britain before being posted to Singapore with No. 232 Squadron RAF. On 21 January 1942, flying a Hawker Hurricane which had only been unloaded a week earlier, he was shot down by a Japanese fighter.
