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THE DISMISSAL

Fifty years on, Australians are still coming to terms with the Whitlam government dismissal. Discussion of the dismissal plotters and their politics – Kerr, Mason, the US ambassador, Fraser, the Royal house and their ructions – are rightly being dissected (thank you, Jenny Hocking).

Yet, I see the politics that informed Whitlam’s own philosophy to ″⁣crash or crash through″⁣ his radical economic class agenda (which many of us benefit today) have been ignored.

The Great Wars informed Whitlam’s politics, with his serving in the Royal Australian Air Force P

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