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Wikipedia: The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, commonly called The Dismissal, refers to the events that culminated with the removal of Australia's then Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party, by Governor-General Sir John Kerr and appointing the Leader of the Opposition Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister. It has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australia's history. The crisis began in the upper house of the Federal Parliament, the Senate, where the opposition Liberal-National Country Party coalition had a majority.
![[Protest occupying the width of George Street, Sydney, outside the Sydney Town Hall, about 6]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Whitlam_dismissal_19751111_Sydney_s.jpg "Protest occupying the width of George Street, Sydney, outside the Sydney Town Hall, about 6")
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![[Yarralumla, the official residence of the Governor-General]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Yarralumla13_s.jpg "Yarralumla, the official residence of the Governor-General")
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