In a surprise move, the ultra liberal Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was fired by a lone man using parliamentary procedures that no one had expected. In a move that has stunned Australia, the Prime Minister, Mr Gough Whitlam was dismissed from office today and Parliament prorogued by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. Contrary to many predictions at the time, Australia’s parliamentary and constitutional system recovered from the 1975 crisis and proved its resilience.

And Gizmodo has now obtained the CIA’s internal biographic report on him. That man was John Kerr. John Pilger. Others saw 1975 as revealing the importance of the Senate’s power to block supply, and the need for the reserve powers of the governor-general to resolve a crisis.

It is one of the incidents that has been associated with a confrontation between Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Bill Robertson, the Director-General of ASIS, resulting in Robertson's sacking on 21 October 1975, with effect on 7 November, just 4 days before Whitlam's own dismissal in the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.

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Rod Culleton discusses a constitutional crisis, which he discovered as he attempts to get justice for his wrongful removal from the Senate. The other aspect of this anti-American theme is the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. There are a lot of different conspiracy theories about what happened to the Australian government in November of 1975.

It is unlikely we will ever have proof one way or another, but given American paranoia at the time about socialism, which in their minds was only one step short of communism, it is quite likely they attempted to influence it. Exercising Section 64 of the Australian Constitution for the first time, Australian Labor party Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed by the Governor-General Sir John Kerr in favor of Liberal party Malcolm Fraser.