Albanese says Whitlam’s dismisssal ‘calculated plot’; Liberals consumed by current battle
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Anthony Albanese has denounced Gough Whitlam’s dismissal from office in 1975 as “a calculated plot, hatched by conservative forces which sacrificed conventions and institutions in the pursuit of power”.
Albanese said the election that followed – won by Malcolm Fraser in a landslide – did “not wash any of that...





