The following lists events that happened during 1975 in Australia.
1975 in Australia | |
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Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governor-General | Sir John Kerr |
Prime minister | Gough Whitlam, then Malcolm Fraser |
Population | 13,722,571 |
Australian of the Year | John Cornforth and Alan Stretton |
Elections | SA, Federal |
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Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then-governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office by a governor-general.
Sir John Robert Kerr, was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvement in the 1975 constitutional crisis, which culminated in his decision to dismiss the incumbent prime minister Gough Whitlam and appoint Malcolm Fraser as his replacement, which led to unprecedented actions in Australian federal politics.
Lionel Frost BowenAC was an Australian politician. He was the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1977 to 1990 and served as the sixth deputy prime minister of Australia in the Hawke government from 1983 to 1990.
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Albert Jaime Grassby, AM was an Australian politician who served as Minister for Immigration in the Labor Whitlam government. He completed reforms in immigration and human rights, and is often known as the father of Australian "multiculturalism". He gained notoriety by acting as an agent of influence for the Calabrian Mafia that murdered anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay.
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Margaret Elaine WhitlamAO was an Australian social campaigner, author, and athlete. She was a representative of Australia in swimming at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney. Her husband was Gough Whitlam, the 21st Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975.
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...was travelling with his wife from Townsville to Emu Park near Rockhampton to attend a skydiving rally
Half a dozen members of the South Australian branch of the Australian Workers' Union boycotted his speech...
Last week, a former Kings Cross barman Shayne Martin-Simmons, 34, was jailed for two years for conspiring to abduct Mrs Neilsen in mid-1975.
Edward Frederick Trigg, 42... pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to abduct the newspaper editor and heiress.
On December 8, 1975, Brisbane community FM radio station 4ZZZ first went to air (under their original callsign 4ZZ-FM).