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Paul Keating Says He'd Have Arrested John Kerr
Historian Jenny Hocking urges the Australian government to release thousands of archival documents on the 1975 dismissal, with nearly 70% already publicly accessible, to clarify the event's full context.
- Fifty years on, the dismissal of Gough Whitlam, Australian prime minister, by Sir John Kerr, Governor-General, on November 11, 1975, is marked alongside Remembrance Day in Australia.
- Court rulings in 2020 that forced release of palace correspondence revealed Jules Léger described a governor-general as 'like a bee' and reported Kerr said Queen Elizabeth II approved his dismissal position.
- Hocking said, `I think one of the key problems about how we write about the dismissal, how we understand the dismissal, is that we haven't had access to all of the material`, and she highlighted that over 8,700 of the 13,000 records are now publicly available.
- The federal government will commission a statue of Gough Whitlam, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the dismissal a partisan ambush and praised Whitlam's reconciliation with Malcolm Fraser as a lesson for orderly government.
- Calls to codify governor‑general powers or consider a republic hinge on released documents, as Jenny Hocking said the fiftieth anniversary should drive transparency and warned debates remain unresolved.
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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Remembering the day Gough Whitlam lost his job
Gough Whitlam address a caught after being dismissed as Prime Minister, November 11 1975 National Archives of Australia, CC BY Tuesday is the fiftieth anniversary of the Dismissal of the Whitlam government. For those who were alive at the time it’s one of those “where were you?” moments. In this podcast, the Conversation’s politics and society editor Amanda Dunn and I discuss that historic day and its impact on Australia’s federal politics. On t…
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