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Margaret Elaine Whitlam, AO (née Dovey; 19 November 1919 – 17 March 2012) was an Australian social campaigner, author, and athlete. She was a representative of Australia in swimming at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney.
Learn about the life and achievements of Margaret Whitlam, the wife of Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975. Explore her political and public activities, her travels, her writings and her honours.
MARGARET Whitlam was the first political wife to insist the partner of the Prime Minister could have a public life of her own as well as assist in the public duties of her husband.
Mar 17, 2012 · Margaret Whitlam has been remembered for revolutionising the role of Australia's 'first lady' and holding forth as an activist for women's rights, the arts and the environment. The wife of Gough Whitlam - and an accomplished broadcaster and elite swimmer in her own right - has died at the age of 92.
Mar 17, 2012 · A tribute to Margaret Whitlam, the wife of former prime minister Gough Whitlam, who died in 2012 at the age of 92. She was a champion swimmer, a social worker, a passionate advocate for women's rights and conservation, and a national treasure.
- Tim Leslie
Oct 21, 2014 · Gough Whitlam met Margaret Elaine Dovey at Sydney party in the summer of 1939. World War II had just started. He was 23 and studying law, she was 20 and a social work student.
Mar 17, 2012 · Margaret Whitlam AO, the revered wife of former prime minister Gough Whitlam, died aged 92 early on Saturday morning. Hailed as a feminist icon of the 1970s, tributes poured in after she passed away in St Vincent's Private Hospital, where she'd been getting treatment following a fall at home in Sydney last month.
