The Dismissal

7.0IMDb Score
Released:1983-03-06
Genre:Drama
Duration:90 min
Country:Australia
Director:Carl Schultz, George Miller, George Ogilvie, John Power, Phillip Noyce
Actors:John Stanton, Max Phipps, John Meillon, Bill Hunter, Peter Sumner
Production:Kennedy Miller

Overview:

The sensational dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor Government by the Queens representative in Australia, the Governor General, Sir John Kerr on November 11, 1975.

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