1975 Australian constitutional crisis
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1975-australian-constitutional-crisis-180-267367
title:
1975 Australian constitutional crisis
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The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General who then commissioned the leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as caretaker prime minister. It has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history. The Labor Party under Gough Whi
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Governor-General dismissal of PM Whitlam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
date created:
2001-12-30T04:38:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T03:04:18Z
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