On The Dismissal Of the Whitlam Government

All of this happened forty four years ago And that history does matter happens to be so On the day that the Australian Governor General John Kerr sacked Australia's P M Gough Whitlam and his Government in November 11 1975 Strong feelings from this in Australia to this day survive One can say a momentous day in Australia's political history And what ever your feelings on the matter may be In political discussions in Australia of the dismissal of Whitlam and his Government most like to have their say In Australian politics it lives on as the Country's most memorable day The sacking of the Prime Minister By the Queen's representative is something most Australians do not celebrate And the letters between the Governor General and the Queen's secretary Martin Charteris on public display of late But the dismissal of the Whitlam Government by John Kerr is now in the distant past Though in Australian political circles the strong feelings on this through the decades does last Gough Whitlam and John Kerr in their eternal rest lay But in Australian politics the sacking of the Australian Government by the Governor General remains a memorable day.