Gough Whitlam

Fiftieth anniversary edition with a new foreword from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Passionate, pithy, learned, witty, and vigorously combative, The Truth of the Matter tells the extraordinary political story of the only Prime Minister of Australia ever deposed from office. On Remembrance Day 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the...