Dismissal of the Whitlam government
1975 · Event
Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam amid a Senate supply deadlock, Australia's gravest constitutional crisis.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
Around 1975
- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Hey Jude (The Beatles) (1968)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965)