Tony Whitlam
{{Short description|Australian politician (born 1944)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2010}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|size=100%|Hon}}
| name = Tony Whitlam
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KC|size=100%}}
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| constituency_MP = Grayndler
| parliament = Australian
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| predecessor = Fred Daly
| successor = Frank Stewart
| term_start = 13 December 1975
| term_end = 10 December 1977
| office2 = Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
| term_start2 = 1 January 1993
| term_end2 = 1 May 2005
| office3 = Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the ACT
| term_start3 = 7 April 1995
| term_end3 = 30 April 2005
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|1|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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| party = Australian Labor Party
| relatives = Fred Whitlam (grandfather)
Bill Dovey (grandfather)
Nicholas Whitlam (brother)
Freda Whitlam (aunt)
William Griffith Dovey (uncle)
| children =
| parents = Gough Whitlam (father)
Margaret Whitlam (mother)
| residence =
| alma_mater = Australian National University
| occupation = Lawyer
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Antony Philip Whitlam {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KC}} (born 7 January 1944) is an Australian lawyer who has been a politician and judge. He is the son of Gough Whitlam (former Prime Minister) and Margaret Whitlam.
Early life and education
Whitlam was born in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6PR3CEn4168C&pg=PA93 | title=Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, Volume 1 | first=Jenny | last=Hocking | publisher=The Miegunyah Press | year=2008 | isbn=9780522855111 | page=93 | accessdate=27 March 2012 }} and educated at Sydney Boys High School (1956–60){{cite web |title=Members of parliament and legislatures |url=https://www.shsobu.org.au/wp-content/uploads/mps.pdf |publisher=Sydney High School Old Boys Union |accessdate=3 September 2019}} and the Australian National University in Canberra, where he graduated in law.
Career
=Early legal career=
Whitlam was called to the New South Wales bar in 1967.
In 1973, he became South East Asia regional counsel for Rank Xerox.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2bIpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EeUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3439,4136506&dq=anthony-whitlam&hl=en|title=Whitlam Appointed|date=11 December 1973|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=22 January 2010}}
=Political career=
After several unsuccessful runs for preselection, Whitlam was elected in 1975 to the House of Representatives seat of Grayndler in central Sydney.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wrIpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JuUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2147,4824121&dq=tony-whitlam&hl=en|title=Tussle in ALP over choice of candidate|date=15 July 1973|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=22 January 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parl/39/6_part1.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604190652/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parl/39/6_part1.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 June 2011|title=Parliamentary Handbook. Historical Information|work=PARLIAMENTARY HANDBOOK OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA|publisher=Parliament of Australia|accessdate=22 January 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/handbook/newhandbook/2008-12-19/toc_pdf_repeat/Part%203%20-%20Elections.pdf;fileType%3Dapplication%2Fpdf|title=Parliamentary Handbook|publisher=Parliament of Australia|pages=319|accessdate=22 January 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tallyroom.com.au/election-2010/grayndler |title=Grayndler – Election 2010 |date=10 January 2010 |publisher=The Tally Room |accessdate=2010-01-21}} 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 and Brendan Lyons, sons of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, were Tasmanian state MPs).
In 1977, there was a redistribution of electoral boundaries in New South Wales, and the Division of Lang, adjoining Grayndler, was abolished. Whitlam ceded Labor preselection to the sitting Labor MP for Lang, Frank Stewart and stood 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.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r2sRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fuYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1160,5044915&dq=tony-whitlam&hl=en|title=Tony Whitlam "Favoured" in Ballot|date=16 October 1977|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=22 January 2010}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RYARAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-eYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3116,4433043&dq=tony-whitlam&hl=en|title=Neil claims support by migrants|date=12 December 1977|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=22 January 2010}}
He attempted a return to federal politics in 1979, but was defeated in a preselection battle for the seat of Grayndler.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19790514&id=0swQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6pIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1753,6624877 The Age, 14 May 1979, p. 5]
During his time as a member of the Federal ALP Caucus, Whitlam got to vote for his father as leader twice, the first in January 1976 the month after the 1975 election defeat and in May 1977 when Bill Hayden launched an unsuccessful challenge against him.
He returned to the Sydney bar, where he had a successful career.
=Judicial appointments=
Whitlam was appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Australia in 1993. In 1995 he was also appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.{{cite web|url=http://www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme/content/about_us_chronological_index.asp?textonly=no|title=Chronological Index of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory|publisher=Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory|accessdate=22 January 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090516023528/http://www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme/content/about_us_chronological_index.asp?textonly=no|archivedate=16 May 2009}} Whitlam was one of only six politicians to have served in both the Parliament of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia, alongside Nigel Bowen, Robert Ellicott, Merv Everett, John Reeves and Duncan Kerr.
After retiring from his judgeships, Whitlam returned again to the bar.{{cite web|url=http://www.sixthfloor.com.au/index.php?page=antonywhitlam|title=Barristers - The Hon. Antony Whitlam QC|publisher=Sixth Floor|accessdate=22 January 2010}}
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