513 - The Dismissal, Australia's 1975 Constitutional Crisis
Do Go On20 Aug 2025

513 - The Dismissal, Australia's 1975 Constitutional Crisis

In 1975, for the first and only time in Australia's history, a Prime Minister was sacked. Gough Whitlam was dismissed after months of political manoeuvring and backstabbing, culminating in what is still the most controversial event in the country's political history. On this episode we look at the three men at the centre of the dismissal, Whitlam, as well as the man who fired him; John Kerr, and the man who replaced him; Malcolm Fraser.


This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 10:07 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).


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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

Gough: Nothing Will Save Speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOJNaqjUra4

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-eleventh

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/whitlam-gough-18730

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis

https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/whitlam-dismissal

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/21/gough-whitlam-in-his-own-words

https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/parliament-and-its-people/people-in-parliament/governor-general

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kerr-sir-john-robert-23431


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