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Originally Posted by lunecat";p="
Dear Mr. Whitlam,
In accordance with section 64 of the Constitution I hereby determine your appointment as my Chief Adviser and Head of the Government. It follows that I also hereby determine the appointments of all the Ministers in your Government.
You have previously told me that you would never resign or advice an election of the House of Representatives or a double dissolution and that the only way in which such an election could be obtained would be by my dismissal of you and your ministerial colleagues. As it appeared likely that you would today persist in this attitude I decided that, if you did, I would determine your commission and state my reasons for doing so. You have persisted in your attitude and I have accordingly acted as indicated. I attach a statement of my reasons which I intend to publish immediately.
It is with a great deal of regret that I have taken this step both in respect of yourself and your colleagues.
I propose to send for the Leader of the Opposition and to commission him to form a new caretaker government until an election can be held.
Yours sincerely,
(sgnd John R. Kerr)
The Honourable E. G. Whitlam, QC, M.P.
11 November 1975
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"Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General!" - Gough.
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And,
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A knight in shining armour, with bullets flashing 'round,
A charge of tearing buckshot was the one that bought him down...
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Speaking of great speeches and Ned (PBUH!!) I'll close with a quote from the proto-Ostrailyun patriot Himself:
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"I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown...let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered."
"I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may now have a bright side."
"If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away."
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...And they were singing; bye bye Miss Ostrailyun Meat Pie,
Ned rode his Neddy to the levee but the levy was dry,
Them Cafflik boys were drinking Usquebaugh,
Singing, "This'll be the day the traps (cops} die...This'll be the day the traps die...
