Kerry O’Brien says Whitlam dismissal was a ‘coup’ | ABC NEWS

9 months ago The News Room

Kerry O’Brien, former ABC journalist and press secretary for Gough Whitlam, has told ABC Radio National Breakfast he believes the prime minister’s dismissal in 1975 represented a sudden seizure of power from a government.

At a live broadcast from Old Parliament House in Canberra, host Sally Sara was joined by O’Brien, veteran journalist Niki Savva and author David Solomon, to reconstruct who knew what, and when, in the lead up to November 11, 1975.
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