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The legacy of Whitlam's dismissal fifty years on

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It has been fifty years since the dismissal of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by Governor General Sir John Kerr - one of the most consequential chapters in Australian political history. The Prime Minister described the sacking as a partisan political ambush as leaders past and present reflected on the event.
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