Whitlam: The Power and the Passion (ATOM Study Guide)

Whitlam: The Power and the Passion is a two-part documentary about Australia's twenty-first prime minister: Gough Whitlam. It tells 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, Gough Whitlam's rise and fall reads like Shakespeare in 1970s safari suits. Heroic to some, flawed to others, his changes still echo across the land.

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 Australian Labor Party (ALP) victory in 1972.