Gough Whitlam, me, mum and Garibaldi

By Mark Kenny, Chief Political Correspondent
Updated October 27 2014 - 10:08am, first published October 21 2014 - 1:43pm
The 1975 dismissal came to define the Whitlam government. This is both understandable and regrettable.
The 1975 dismissal came to define the Whitlam government. This is both understandable and regrettable.

For a kid growing up in the Adelaide hills in the 1970s, Canberra was a long way away. Yet on November 11 1975, that distance was suddenly removed, obliterated by the nationwide shock of an event that would be shorthanded simply as "the dismissal".

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