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The most dramatic moment in Australian politics, 50 years on

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

Bella Ann Sanchez and Tony Wright

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