The Truth Of The Matter. His Powerful Account Of The Dismissal

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Second Edition

Description: 303 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: On Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, sacked the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict, as Whitlams reforming Labor government rammed home overdue legislative reforms in the face of implacable, and increasingly bitter, conservative opposition. The focus of the Oppositions scheming was the Senate, where its leaders blocked supply in order to force a political crisis. Whitlam, famous for his crash through or crash style, refused to compromise with his political enemies. After consulting secretly with the Opposition Leader, Malcolm Fraser, and the Chief Justice, Sir Garfield Barwick, Kerr abruptly informed the PM that he had withdrawn his commission. Half an hour later, Kerr swore Fraser in as caretaker Prime Minister. At an election a month later, the conservatives were returned to office. Controversy and recrimination followed. Many Australians, including Whitlam himself, b

ISBN: 9780522852127