All Episodes 2013

An extraordinary story of the hard-fought rise and dramatic fall of a visionary Australian Prime Minister during one of the country's most turbulent eras. With its scandals and political deaths, dizzying highs and terrible lows, prime minister Gough Whitlam's rise and fall reads like Shakespeare. Heroic to some, flawed to others, his changes still echo today.

Gough Whitlam didn’t rise to the top to become Prime Minister; he had to fight to get there. His only free ride came on the winds of social change that woke up conservative Australia and helped deliver the Australia Labor Party (ALP) victory in 1972.