Terms as PM:

5 December 1972 – 11 November 1975

Terms as MP:

House of Representatives: 17 February 1953 – 31 July 1978 (Werriwa); Deputy Leader of the Opposition (March 1960 – February 1967); Leader of the Opposition (February 1967 – December 1972; November 1975 – December 1977)

Portfolios:

Thirteen portfolios: 5–19 December 1972
Foreign Affairs: December 1972 – November 1973
Environment: July 1975

Political memberships:

Australian Labor Party (NSW branch, 1945–, National Life Member 2007; federal parliamentary Labor Party leader, February 1967 – December 1977); Socialist International; UNESCO Executive Board

After:

Australian Ambassador to UNESCO (1983–86); Chair, National Gallery of Australia Council (1987–90); Chair, Australia–China Council (1986–91)

• only Prime Minister to grow up in the national capital
• dubbed ‘the young brolga’ when he entered parliament, for his height (194cm) and imperious bearing
• one of only two Prime Ministers whose lifetime spanned the lives of all 25 Prime Ministers in Australia’s first century (John Gorton was the other)
• was on active service in World War II as a RAAF navigator, despite suffering badly from airsickness
• only Prime Minister dismissed from office
• the Whitlam government introduced a record number of Bills, and a record number were enacted, though the Senate rejected 93 Bills, more than the total number rejected during the previous 71 years of the parliament
• Whitlam is Australia's longest-lived Prime Minister 
• the Whitlam Institute was developed within the University of Western Sydney in 2000