- Tony Whitlam
Antony Philip Whitlam QC, (born
7 January 1944 ),Australia n politician and judge, is the son of former Prime MinisterGough Whitlam andMargaret Whitlam . He was born inSydney and educated atSydney Boys' High School and theAustralian National University inCanberra , where he graduated in law.In 1975 Tony Whitlam was elected to the
Australian House of Representatives for the safeAustralian Labor Party seat of Grayndler in central Sydney. His father Gough Whitlam was at that time the Leader of the Labor Party and had just been dismissed as Prime Minister by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. Labor was heavily defeated but Tony Whitlam easily won Grayndler. He became only the second federal MP to serve in the House at the same time as his father. He is also the only child of an Australian Prime Minister to be a federal MP (Kevin andBrendan Lyons , sons of Prime MinisterJoseph Lyons , wereTasmania n state MPs).In 1977 there was a redistribution of electoral boundaries in New South Wales, and the
Division of Lang , adjoining Grayndler, was abolished. The sitting Labor MP for Lang,Frank Stewart , challenged Tony Whitlam for Labor endorsement in Grayndler and defeated him. Whitlam was forced to stand for another seat, the marginal Liberal seat of St George, where he was defeated at the December 1977 election by the sitting Liberal member,Maurice Neil .Whitlam did not return to politics. Instead he had a successful career at the Sydney bar, before being appointed a judge of the
Federal Court of Australia in 1993. In 1994 he was also appointed a judge of theSupreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory .
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