Tony Whitlam
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The Honourable Tony Whitlam QC |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Grayndler |
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In office 13 December 1975 – 10 December 1977 |
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| Preceded by | Fred Daly |
| Succeeded by | Frank Stewart |
| Justice of the Federal Court of Australia | |
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In office 1 January 1993 – 1 May 2005 |
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| Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the ACT | |
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In office 7 April 1995 – 30 April 2005 |
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7 January 1944 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Relations |
Fred Whitlam (grandfather) Gough Whitlam (father) Margaret Whitlam (mother) Nicholas Whitlam (brother) Stephen Whitlam (brother) Catherine Dovey (sister) |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Antony Philip Whitlam QC (born 7 January 1944) is an Australian lawyer who has served as a politician and judge. He is the son of Gough Whitlam (former Prime Minister) and Margaret Whitlam.
He was born in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, and educated at Sydney Boys' High School (1956–60) and the Australian National University in Canberra, where he graduated in law.
Whitlam was called to the New South Wales bar in 1967.
In 1973, he became South-east Asia regional counsel for Rank Xerox.
After several unsuccessful runs for preselection, he was elected in 1975 to the House of Representatives seat of Grayndler in central Sydney. 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.
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