By Brian Boyd Introduction The shock to Australia’s body politic in 1975, was a blow to the nation’s national sovereignty. The unprecedented sacking of the ALP Whitlam government by Governor-General Kerr and the installation of Liberal leader Fraser as interim Prime Minister, caused wide spread opposition. Large demonstrations occurred immediately. Numerous protests continued, even after the 1976 federal election result. …

By Shirley Winton 11th November marks the 50th anniversary of the bloodless semi-coup of the popularly elected Whitlam government in 1975. As the tide for an anti-imperialist independent Australia is building up, what lessons can we learn from the Whitlam dismissal 50 years on.  This was a bloodless coup unlike the fascist coups in Indonesia (1965) and Chile (1973) where …