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On 11 November 1975, Kerr used his reserve powers as governor-general to dismiss Whitlam and his ministry, appointing Fraser to lead a caretaker government. He immediately granted Fraser's request for a double dissolution , leading to a federal election that saw Whitlam and the ALP defeated in a landslide.
[42] - Sir John Kerr, 11th November 1975 in correspondence with John Kerr In a letter from 24 November 1975 to the Private Secretary Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield , Kerr noted that there was a particular feeling among the people of rage at his decision to sack Whitlam, [ 42 ] and cited that he felt a majority of people ...
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General who then commissioned the leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as prime minister to hold a new election.
A Seventh Man is a book, in the form of photography and text by John Berger and Jean Mohr, on migrant workers in Europe. It was first published in 1975. It was first published in 1975. External links
The government commenced when Labor defeated the McMahon government at the 1972 federal election, ending a record 23 years of continuous Coalition government. It was terminated by Governor-General Sir John Kerr following the 1975 constitutional crisis and was succeeded by the Fraser government —the sole occasion in Australian history when an ...
Known and Unknown: A Memoir (2011; ISBN 978-1-59523-067-6) by Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense 1975–1977 and 2001–2006. Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon (1990), by Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense 1981–1987.
To raise the living standards of those dependent on national insurance benefits, the government index-linked short-term benefits to the rate of inflation, while pensions and long-term benefits were tied to increases in prices or earnings, whichever was higher. [4] In 1975, a State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) was introduced. A new ...
From 1961 to 1987, he was the Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University. His 1975 book Thinking About Crime put forward a novel theory of incapacitation as the most effective explanation for the reduction in crime rates observed where longer prison sentences were the norm. Criminals might not be deterred by the threat of longer ...