When Australia's 21st Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, came to power in December 1972, there was great anticipation for dramatic and rapid change. Australia had been under the control of a conservative Liberal government for 23 consecutive years and Whitlam's promises of social change were eagerly anticipated. Whitlam, despite his failures as a negotiator, managed to implement a wide range of reforms and changes, many of which transformed Australia into the country it is today. But is this enough to say that he succeeded? Even Whitlam today admits that he regrets having done "too much too soon", and perhaps Whitlam's government was too socially progressive a government for the time, which could perhaps have been a harbinger of things to come for the more recent government Julia's Labor Party. Gillard, who has been labeled by some as the most incompetent government since Whitlam. Gough Whitlam has written and published more books about him than any other Australian Prime Minister to date. This essay will argue that Whitlam was a successful leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), who had the ability and charisma to lead Australia into an era of prosperity; however he succumbed to some serious errors in judgment which ultimately led to his downfall, however his ultimate goal was to transform Australia, which he achieved. Whitlam's mistakes were seen as due to his failure to take advice from senior figures on how to transform his amateur government into a competent government and to his inflexible approach to dealing with the hostile Senate that the Australian public gave him, and often led to his government. being labeled the worst in Australian history and a failure. The period of the 60s, 70s and 80s in Australia was a… medium of paper… the way it changed Australia and brought it out of a childhood dominated by British culture and into an adult country with its own culture, its own social policies, its own national anthem and its own set of foreign policies. It can therefore be seen that although Whitlam had his problems throughout his tenure, from the public relations disaster of the Khemlani loans issue to the supply freeze and his sacking by a governor general he foolishly trusted , that his political agenda and the changes he promulgated while in government changed Australian society and the ALP. Whether it is introducing universal free healthcare, abolishing the death penalty, moving to a more multicultural nation, improving indigenous rights, introducing no-fault divorce or introducing the anthem Australian national team, Whitlam did not fail in his goal. , which would transform Australia.