On 11 November 1975, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam stood on the steps of Parliament House and delivered his now-famous ‘Kerr’s cur’ speech. Moments earlier, Governor-General Sir John Kerr’s secretary, David Smith, had announced Whitlam’s dismissal and the dissolution of parliament. Whitlam’s off-the-cuff response – ‘Well may we say “God save the Queen”, because nothing will save the Governor-General’ – captured the national mood of shock. His sharp timing, pauses and instinct for drama turned pol
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