Former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam, who died on Tuesday at the age of 98, was one of his country's most revolutionary yet divisive statesmen, forging ties with China but triggering a constitutional crisis that split the country.
Whitlam, who held office from 1972 to 1975, withdrew Australian troops from Vietnam and ended conscription, banned sports teams from apartheid-era South Africa, made university study free and opened diplomatic negotiations with emerging communist China.
But his legacy was dominated by the greatest political upheaval in Australian history when his center-left government was sacked by the Queen's representative, Governor-General Sir John Kerr.