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- Bettina_Gorton abstract "Bettina Gorton (23 June 1915 – 2 October 1983) was the American-born wife of John Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia 1968-71.Gorton was born Bettina Edith Brown in Great Barrington, USA, in 1915. Her father Arthur A. Brown was the president of an American bank in Cuba and mother, Grace M. (née Whitaker). He died when she was two years old and her mother returned to her home state of Maine. She attended Bangor High School and the University of Maine.In 1933 she was studying languages at the Sorbonne in Paris, and was taken for a holiday to Spain by her brother, Arthur Brown, where they shared a cottage with John Gorton, an Australian friend of Arthur's from Oxford University. She married Gorton on 15 February 1935 at St Giles Church, Oxford, and after his studies were finished they returned to his father's orchard near Kerang, Victoria. Her mother Grace Brown came to live with them, and she later revealed that her son Arthur, Bettina's brother and John Gorton's closest friend from Oxford, was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party.They had a daughter, Joanna in 1937, and two sons, Michael in 1938 and Robin in 1941.During John's war service, Bettina ran the farm and raised the children. He entered parliament in 1950, as a Senator for Victoria, and was often away in Canberra on parliamentary business. They moved to Canberra in 1958 when he was appointed a minister in the government of Robert Menzies.In 1958, in a widely publicised court case, the novelist Jean Campbell (the mistress of John Gorton's father, who had died in 1936) sued Bettina for shares in the family company. Campbell alleged that Gorton senior had given the shares to her. The judge ruled in favour of Bettina Gorton.In 1960, she accompanied her husband on an official visit to Sarawak, which sparked a lifelong interest in oriental languages and cultures. This led to her enrolling for a second degree, at the Australian National University. She graduated with honours in Oriental Studies, and worked as a part-time research assistant on an English-Malay dictionary.Confusion long existed over her nationality and eligibility to vote in Australian elections. She had believed herself to be ineligible to vote, as an American Citizen. However the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs clarified in 1968 that as the wife of an Australian citizen (married in Oxford, UK in 1935) she was an Australian Citizen and British Subject. The convoluted chain of events resulting in her holding dual citizenship are detailed in the Australian National Archives.In 1968, John Gorton became Prime Minister and they moved into The Lodge. She oversaw a number of restoration projects, and also arranged for the building of the prominent white brick security wall around the property, and established a garden of Australian native plants in the grounds.Bettina Gorton was generally a low-profile prime ministerial spouse, but there were some significant exceptions. Her interest in oriental studies was widely reported in South-East Asia, and her speeches during John Gorton's official prime ministerial visits to Malaysia and Singapore and her ability to converse with locals in their own languages made her very popular there. Gough Whitlam later praised her for making a lasting and valuable contribution to Australia's relations with Indonesia.In 1969 she came to her husband's defence over an incident sparked by his Liberal colleague Edward St John, a member of the House of Representatives. Gorton had attended a dinner at the American Embassy in Canberra, accompanied not by his wife, but by Geraldine Willesee, the daughter of a Labor senator, Don Willesee. St John criticised this, claiming Gorton had offended the embassy and embarrassed his party. After Labor Senator Lionel Murphy sent a message to the House of Representatives suggesting that St John's comments were an inappropriate breach of the Prime Minister's privacy, St John not only received no support from his Liberal colleagues, but he also became the focus of a poem that Bettina Gorton sent to the press gallery. She adapted a poem by William Watson, which she headed \"Comment on Current Events\": He is not old, he is not young, The Member with the Serpent's tongue, The haggard cheek, the hungering eye, The poisoned words that wildly fly, The famished face, the fevered hand – Who slights the worthiest in the land, Sneers at the just, condemns the brave And blackens goodness in its grave.Edward St John was forced to resign from the Liberal Party, and the incident spelled the beginning of the end of his parliamentary career.Bettina Gorton's other activities including officially opening Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport on 9 July 1970.After John Gorton left the prime ministership in 1971, Bettina resumed her work on the English-Malay dictionary. He was knighted in 1977, and Bettina became Lady Gorton. She died, aged 68, on 2 October 1983. Sir John Gorton remarried in 1993, dying in 2002.The indigenous garden she created at The Lodge is now named the Bettina Gorton Garden.".
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- Bettina_Gorton wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bettina Brown Gorton".
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- Bettina_Gorton caption "John and Bettina Gorton ca. 1968".
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