The third man in Whitlam sacking

By Jenny Hocking
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:04pm, first published August 25 2012 - 3:00am

Sir John Kerr had been governor-general for just eight months when, in March 1975, he approached the vice-chancellor of the Australian National University with a confidential request.

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