1973: Australia

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Under the leadership of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the Commonwealth's first Labor government since 1949 quickly moved to flex its diplomatic muscles in a sequence of independent-minded foreign policy gestures, while at the same time expending its energies at home on a series of progressive... ...