The 50th anniversary of the most tumultuous day in Australian political history has been used by former prime minister John Howard to urge Liberal leader Sussan Ley to talk to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese about introducing four-year parliamentary terms.

Just hours after Paul Keating revealed he had urged Gough Whitlam to arrest governor-general Sir John Kerr while ensuring the Army did not move to protect the vice-regal representative, Howard said he was open to constitutional change while describing three-year terms as ludicrous.

Whitlam was sacked by Kerr on November 11, 1975, in a turn of events that has reverberated through the Australian political system since. The Museum of Australian Democracy, housed within the old parliament house, on Tuesday held a series of interviews and p

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