“On Tuesday 11 November 1975, my father Jock Fraser was involved in a collision on Victoria Road Ryde, with a car with the registration prefix GOF,” reports Roberta Madsen of Gymea Bay. “This was reported on The Back Page of the Sun Herald on Sunday 16th November 1975: ‘On the Tuesday of the political upheaval, David Watt, temporary lecturer in drama at Macquarie University was driving his car, registration prefix GOF when it was involved in a crash of another car, driven by a man named Fraser’.”

“I read that on the day of the dismissal, Whitlam ate steak and a horiatiki side salad,” says Chris Commens of Rosebery. “My mum was the chef at The Lodge and would have cooked that. All she said about the day was that it was a very long one in the kitchen preparing food for the comings and goi

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