Dismissal of the Whitlam Government
I. Sir John Kerr, The Dismissal & the Age of
Folly
The revelations by former Australian High Court judge, Sir
Anthony Mason, of his involvement in advising Sir John Kerr prior
to the sacking of the Whitlam Labor Party government in 1975 have
provoked a flurry of self-justification by politicians and
misinformation in the Australian press. more
II. Sir John Kerr, The Dismissal & the Age of
Folly—Part II
On 13th September 2012 the writer sent to the Editor in Chief of
‘The Australian’ a letter which followed his letter of 27th August
to the newspaper’s Letters Editor referred to in the first part of
this article. more
III. Sir John Kerr, The Dismissal & the Age of
Folly
The usual prejudices have surfaced on the 50th anniversary of Sir
John Kerr's dismissal of the appalling Labor Government under
Gough Whitlam in November 1975. It is almost impossible to find a
dispassionate comment on the topic. Visitors to this website are
invited to read Peter O'Brien's The Dismissal Deniers on the
Spectator here - https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/11/the-dismissal-deniers/
and the paper on the topic available on this website
written in 2012 - https://www.superflumina.org/PDF_files/Sir_John_the_dismissal.pdf
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