An instance of a Governor General exercising his power was during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, when the Australian Prime Minister of the time, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed by the Governor-General.

After meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato, Whitlam observed that the reason Japan at that time was hesitant to withdraw recognition from the Nationalist government was " the presence of a treaty between the Japanese government and that of Chiang Kai-shek ".

The Queen chose not to intervene during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, in which Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam, on the basis that it was a matter " clearly placed within the jurisdiction of the Governor-General ".

Holt responded rashly, questioning the impartiality of the ABC and implying political bias on the part of journalist Mike Willesee ( whose father Don Willesee was an ALP Senator and future Whitlam government minister ) and his statement drew strong protests from both Willesee and the Australian Journalists ' Association.

Keating was a backbencher for most of the period of the Whitlam Government ( December 1972 – November 1975 ).

He briefly became Minister for the Northern Territory in late October 1975, but lost that post when the Whitlam Government was dismissed by Sir John Kerr on 11 November 1975.

* In 1973 Menzies was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, First Class ( other Australian Prime Ministers to be awarded this honour were Edmund Barton, John McEwen, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam ).

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Among his pupils was future Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam.

Albury-Wodonga was selected as the primary focus of the federal Whitlam government's scheme to arrest the uncontrolled growth of Australia's large coastal cities ( Sydney and Melbourne in particular ) by encouraging decentralisation.

However, the Australian Prime Minister at the time, Gough Whitlam, insisted that the second pronunciation was the correct one because of the Greek origins of the two parts of the word.

He was unlucky to come up against a new and formidable Labor Opposition Leader in Gough Whitlam.

He was unable to match the performance of Labor leader Gough Whitlam, who campaigned on radical new policies such as universal health insurance.

His voice and appearance came across badly on television, and he was no match in parliamentary debates for Whitlam, a witty and powerful orator.

McMahon lost his nerve, and in the December 1972 election campaign, he was outperformed by Whitlam and subjected to further humiliation in the press.

When Whitlam won the election, McMahon resigned the Liberal leadership and was replaced by Snedden, who became the new Opposition Leader.

While the Whitlam Government introduced many new policies and programs, it was also rocked by scandals and political miscalculations.

On 30 July, Whitlam gained Kerr's agreement for a joint sitting, which was set for 6 – 7 August 1974.

In December 1974, Whitlam was anxious to find new sources of money to finance his development plans.

This letter was described by author and journalist Alan Reid as " the death warrant of the Whitlam ALP government ".

By March 1975, many Liberal parliamentarians felt that Snedden was doing an inadequate job as Leader of the Opposition, and that Whitlam was dominating him in the House of Representatives.

Whitlam argued that because of the vacancies being filled as they were, the Senate was " corrupted " and " tainted ", with the Opposition enjoying a majority they did not win at the ballot box.

In 1971, shortly after he had switched his country's diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China, the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, visited Japan.

Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr appointed Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister after dismissing Gough Whitlam.

Nonetheless, Whitlam, who began campaigning almost immediately after the dismissal, was met with huge crowds wherever he went ; 30, 000 people overspilled the Sydney Domain for the official campaign launch on 24 November.

Whitlam resigned as ALP leader after the party suffered its second successive electoral defeat in 1977.

Cairns first became aware of what was to become known as the Loans Affair three days after being appointed Treasurer, on the 13th of December 1974, when he entered at the end of a meeting of the Labor Party federal executive at the Lodge, Whitlam explained the situation and requested that Cairns co-sign approval for the loan.

Whitlam returned from overseas on 19 January 1975 and on 27 January 1975, Connor's authority to borrow the loan was reinstated without consultation with Cairns as Treasurer, who found out after the fact.

Cook is the only Prime Minister up to Gough Whitlam who does not have a federal electorate named after him.

When Whitlam resigned as Labor leader after his defeat at the 1977 election, Bowen contested the party leadership but was defeated by Bill Hayden and became Deputy Leader.

The Fraser Government subsequently enacted the Aboriginal Land Rights Act in 1976, after its drafting by the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975.

It is worth noting that every Prime Minister since Gough Whitlam has had their tree destroyed soon after planting, and the trees representing these Prime Ministers were re-planted later.

This precedent was followed after Dixon's death, when then-Governor-General Sir John Kerr sought advice from Dixon's successor Sir Garfield Barwick CJ before controversially dismissing the Labor Government under Gough Whitlam in 1975.

Button became part of the interim Advisory Council which took over the branch after intervention, and in 1974 he was elected to the Australian Senate as a strong supporter of Whitlam.

In a press conference after the withdrawal of his commission, Whitlam inadvertently highlighted this option when he told reporters:

The Greens WA grew out of the growing counter-cultural, environmental, social and political concerns after the fall of the Whitlam government, particularly articulated by Jim Cairns in the Down to Earth movement that saw community sustainability emerging as an important issue.

Stephens has been an active ALP member since joining after the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975.

Whitlam Park is named after former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

It is named after the former Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam.

After a meeting at the Prime Minister's residence, The Lodge, Whitlam and three of his ministers ( Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Jim Cairns, Attorney-General Senator Lionel Murphy, and Minister for Minerals and Energy Rex Connor ) signed a letter of authority for Connor to borrow up to US $ 4 billion.

Labor Senator Tony Mulvihill later related that " Whitlam would come back to each caucus meeting and say, ' I saw His Excellency ... No worry.

Kerr invited Whitlam and Minister for Labour Senator Jim McClelland to lunch on 30 October, immediately preceding an Executive Council meeting.

After the meeting, Fraser proposed a compromise: that the Opposition would concede supply if Whitlam agreed to hold a House of Representatives election at the same time as the half-Senate election.

Whitlam agreed, and a meeting was set for 9 a. m. on the morning of Tuesday 11 November, at Parliament House.

To ensure the Opposition leaders could reach Canberra in time for the meeting, Whitlam brought them back in his VIP aircraft, which arrived in Canberra at midnight.

Both men were busy in the morning, Kerr with Remembrance Day commemorations, and Whitlam with a caucus meeting and a censure motion in the House which the Opposition had submitted.

In their accounts of their meeting, both men agree that Kerr then told Whitlam that his commission as Prime Minister was withdrawn under Section 64 of the Constitution, and handed him a letter and statement of reasons.