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Whitlam Dismissal: Stripping Gough Whitlam’s office

1975

Whitlam Dismissal: Stripping Gough Whitlam’s office

1975

  • NFSA IDJE356HFP
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormSeries
  • GenresNews
  • Year1975

Camera operator Bob Wilesmith was working for Channel 7 in the Parliament House bureau in Canberra on 11 November 1975, and was an eyewitness on the day that Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his government from office.

Here, his camera captures a flurry of activity around the House of Representatives side of Parliament House as Whitlam's filing cabinets were removed from his office into waiting vans.

Read more in The 1975 Whitlam Dismissal: News Footage

Courtesy of
Seven Network

Camera operator Bob Wilesmith was working for Channel 7 in the Parliament House bureau in Canberra on 11 November 1975, and was an eyewitness on the day that Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his government from office.

Here, his camera captures a flurry of activity around the House of Representatives side of Parliament House as Whitlam's filing cabinets were removed from his office into waiting vans.

Read more in The 1975 Whitlam Dismissal: News Footage

Courtesy of
Seven Network
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