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The dismissal--all passion spent.(Gough Whitlam government dismissed)(Editorial)
THE SILLIEST public comment on the recent thirtieth anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam government came from former prime minister Paul Keating, who, launching a reissue of the book on the affair by Michael Sexton (The Great Crash, Scribe), announced that what he would have done then, and would have done when prime minister if a similar situation had arisen, was to place the governor-general under house arrest to prevent him dismissing the prime minister so that there would have been an election with the prime minister going to the people as the incumbent. The first extraordinary aspect of this proposition is that it displays the former prime minister's total ...
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