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home / archives / politics / australian / federal / gough whitlam / 11th March 1977

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Keeping a foreign bat!

Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser endorsed United States defence facilities on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Gough Whitlam had retained leadership of the Australian Labor Party at this time and declared himself against the US presence in the Indian Ocean. Whitlam was subsequently defeated in the Federal election in December 1977.