Former NSW Premier Barrie Unsworth leads team buying Sydney home once owned by Gough Whitlam
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The architect-designed home was cutting-edge when it was built in the 1950s.
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A group led by former NSW Labor Premier Barrie Unsworth has sealed a deal to buy Gough Whitlam's former house before it was due to go to auction this weekend.
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Gough and Margaret Whitlam owned the Cabramatta house from 1956 until 1978
Four men, including the Whitlam's son Nick, have bought the home ahead of Saturday's auction
Nick visited the four-bedroom home for the first time in 50 years, describing it as "unchanged"
The family home of late former prime minister Gough Whitlam was sold to a Labor heavyweights. The Cabramatta home in Sydney's southwest sold on Friday for $400K more than sales price.
It was the family home of a prime minister during one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian politics.
Now, a group of Labor Party heavyweights want to step in to save the house of Gough Whitlam in Cabramatta in south-west Sydney.
The house is going to auction this weekend â the first time it's been on the market in 30 years.
The home Gough Whitlam lived in as Prime Minister in Sydney is going on the market.(9News)
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Former NSW Premier Barrie Unsworth, NSW Labor President Mark Lennon, Unions NSW Secretary Mark Morey and Mr Whitlam's businessman son Nick have banded together and formed the Whitlam Heritage Home Fund to try to become the winning bidder.
With a murky green pool and in need of major repairs, the Sydney home of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam owned at the time of his dismissal is for sale.