Planning Minister Matthew Guy's backflip to save Gough Whitlam childhood home

By Mark Hawthorne, Clay Lucas and Nadia Wu
Updated October 23 2014 - 6:08pm, first published 3:54pm
Demolition has begun at Ngara, the Kew childhood home of Gough Whitlam.
Demolition has begun at Ngara, the Kew childhood home of Gough Whitlam.

Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy has stopped the destruction of Gough Whitlam's birthplace in the Melbourne suburb of Kew, despite on Wednesday claiming he could not intervene because a demolition order had already been granted by the local council.

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