Margaret Elaine Whitlam AO (née Dovey; 19 November 1919 – 17 March 2012) was an Australian social campaigner, author, and athlete.

[1] Dovey married Gough Whitlam, a Royal Australian Air Force officer, in April 1942 in St Michael's Church of England, Vaucluse.

[6] Together, they had four children: Tony (7 January 1944), who has been a barrister, federal MP and a judge; Nicholas (6 December 1945), who became a prominent merchant banker and businessman; Stephen (April 1950),[7] a diplomat,[8] and Caroline Whitlam (2 February 1954),[9] who later changed her name to Catherine Dovey after she lost a job because of her family name;[9] she is married to former News Limited Chief Executive Officer Kim Williams.

She was a regular guest speaker on radio and television, and wrote a column for the magazine Woman's Day, where she offered an insight into the life of a prime minister's wife.

[1] After the end of her husband's political career, Whitlam held a number of public and cultural offices, including serving as inaugural chair of the Australian Opera Conference; and on the boards of Sydney Dance Company between 1977 and 1982;[10] International Literacy Year, International Women's Year (1975), and the Law Foundation of New South Wales.

[12] In 1995 she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of New England and, in 1997, became one of the one hundred Australian National Living Treasures.