Gough!

Clifton Pugh’s portrait of Gough Whitlam in Parliament House in Canberra.

After Gough Whitlam was dismissed as a result of the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975, he refused to sit for the traditional portrait which is done of Australian Prime Ministers.  He instructed that the 1972 Archibald Prize winning portrait by Clifton Pugh be used instead. 



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