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Had Twitter or mobile phones been around in 1975, Malcolm Fraser’s integral role in John Kerr’s dismissal of Whitlam would have been known much earlier
On the afternoon of 11 November 1975, the steps of Canberra’s old Parliament House became the stage for the most immortal of so very many Gough Whitlam-isms.
“Well may we say ‘God save the Queen’ – because nothing will save the governor general.”
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