Video: 50 years on: The Whitlam Dismissal explained
50 years on: The Whitlam Dismissal explained
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On November 11, 1975, the Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was fired by the Queen’s representative Sir John Kerr. It was the most dramatic political crisis in the nation’s history.