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Former PM Whitlam in aged care: report

Former prime minister Gough Whitlam has moved into an aged-care facility at the age of 93, a newspaper report says.

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Australia's longest-living former prime minister, Gough Whitlam, has moved into an aged-care facility at the age of 93, a newspaper report says.

The Daily Telegraph said on Wednesday that Mr Whitlam, who uses a wheelchair, has moved into Lulworth House, a facility attached to St Luke's in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney.

His wife Margaret, 90, is said to have been unable to manage her husband's care.

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Mr Whitlam was Labor prime minister from 1972 to 1975.


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