Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Australia when the Joint Communiqué with the People's Republic of China was signed?
Context: The Tehran Communiqué, also known as the "Joint statement of the heads of state in Tehran" is the joint communiqué mediated by Iranian President, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and signed by the acting President of Azerbaijan, Yagub Mammadov and President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrossian on May 7, 1992 with an intention to end the four-year-long hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, a former autonomous oblast of the Azerbaijan SSR. After the Japan–PRC Joint Communiqué in 1972, Japan no longer recognizes the Republic of China (Taiwan) as the sole official government of China.  However, Japan has maintained non-governmental, working-level relations with Taiwan. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore is the deputy head of the government of the Republic of Singapore.  The role of Deputy Prime Minister is the second highest post and senior Cabinet Minister in Singapore.  The holder will sometimes assume the role of Acting Prime Minister when the PM is temporarily absent from Singapore.  Since the mid-1980s, Singapore has usually had two Deputy Prime Ministers at a time.  Only Ong Teng Cheong and Tony Tan (who later became Singaporean presidents) served under more than one Prime Minister during their time as Deputy Prime Minister. The Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China was signed in Beijing on September 29, 1972.  This established diplomatic relations between Japan and the People's Republic of China and resulted in the severing of official relations between Japan and the Republic of China (Taiwan).  Specifically, the treaty ended the "abnormal relations between Japan and China," recognized the People's Republic of China as the "sole government of China" and renounced any claim for war reparations from World War II.  It firmly maintains its stand under Article 8 of the Potsdam Declaration. The Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, also known as the Shanghai Communiqué (1972), was an important diplomatic document issued by the United States of America and the People's Republic of China on February 28, 1972 during President Richard Nixon's visit to China.  The document pledged that it was in the interest of all nations for the United States and China to work towards the normalization of their relations, although this would not occur until the Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations seven years later. Edward Gough Whitlam {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( 11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975.  The Leader of the Labor Party from 1967 to 1977, Whitlam led his party to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election.  He won the 1974 election before being controversially dismissed by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.  Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have his commission terminated in that manner. Relations between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Republic of China dates back in 1909 when the latter was ruled by the Qing dynasty.  Since 1972, the political status and legal status of Taiwan are contentious issues.  Australia's current position towards Taiwan is largely based on the Joint Communiqué with the People's Republic of China signed by the Whitlam Labor government in 1972.  Under this agreement, the Australian government officially adheres to the One-China policy in which Australia recognises the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as the ‘sole legitimate government of China.’  Currently, only twenty-one UN member states and the Holy See officially recognise Taiwan.  The Joint Communiqué establishes ‘guidelines for official Australian contact with Taiwan,’ explicitly stating that Australia ‘does not consider Taiwan to have the status of national government.’  Despite the Australian government not having an official relationship with Taiwan, a substantial unofficial relationship has developed through cultural and trade links. The Joint Communiqué was an agreement signed on 16 June 1963 between the South Vietnamese government of Ngô Đình Diệm and the Buddhist leadership during the "Buddhist crisis". The Three Communiqué or The Three Joint Communiqués () are a collection of three joint statements made by the governments of the United States and the People's Republic of China.  The communiqué played a crucial role in the normalization of relations between the U.S. and the P.R.C. and continue to be an essential element in the current dialogue between the two countries. Alexander Yurevich Borodai (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Борода́й ; ] , Ukrainian: Олександр Юрійович Бородай ; born July 25, 1972) was Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in 2014.  After the Donetsk People's Republic declared its independence from Ukraine on 12 May 2014, Borodai was appointed as Prime Minister by the republic's Supreme Council on May 16, 2014.  Borodai, a Russian citizen, had earlier worked as a political adviser to Sergey Aksyonov, the prime minister of the Republic of Crimea.  On 7 August 2014 Borodai announced his resignation.  He was succeeded by Alexander Zakharchenko; under Zakharchenko, Borodai became Deputy Prime Minister.
Answer: Gough Whitlam