Whitlam Dismissal: The day Australia's PM was sacked | 50 years on

On November 11, 1975, the Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was fired by the Queen's representative, Governor-General Sir John Kerr. The Dismissal was the most dramatic political crisis in the nation's history.

Fifty years on, Associate Editor and Special Writer for The Age, Tony Wright, revisits that extraordinary day, the events that led up to it, and explains the constitutional crisis and how the shock of the Dismissal continues to shape Australian democracy.

Produced and edited by Bella Ann Sanchez for The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald – 50 Years Since the Dismissal

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TIMESTAMPS/CHAPTERS:
0:00 - November 11, 1975, the day Whitlam was sacked
0:35 - The coalition blocks the appropriation bills in the Senate
1:16 - Governor-General uses reserve powers to sack Gough Whitlam
1:50 - The Palace Letters & conspiracy claims
2:18 - Tony Wright eyewitness account - the scene at Parliament House
2:52 - Whitlam's speech on the steps of Parliament House
3:22 - Aftermath and maintain the rage rallies
4:20 - Malcolm Fraser is elected Prime Minister
4:45 - Events that led to the Dismissal
5:23 - The Dismissal's lasting impact on Australian democracy

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