Gough Whitlam’s dismissal ‘a calculated plot’ to remove elected government via partisan ambush, PM says

Albanese says old suffocating conservatism' of Menzies era reached out of its political grave to remove a government chosen by voters

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Gough Whitlam's dismissal was not a constitutional crisis but a calculated plot" to remove a democratically elected government via partisan ambush, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says.

Reflecting ahead of Tuesday's 50th anniversary of governor general Sir John Kerr's move to dismiss the Labor government on 11 November 1975, Albanese has used a speech at Old Parliament House to lash the then opposition leader, Malcolm Fraser, accusing the Coalition of forming government without any legitimate pretext".