The independent Mayor of Albury, Cleaver Bunton, was appointed instead. The loan was to be used to fund a number of natural resources and energy projects, including the construction of a natural gas pipeline, the electrification of interstate railways and a uranium enrichment plant. A Pakistani broker, Tirath Khemlani, was used by Connor to secure the loan. In the end, no loan was ever obtained, no commissions were paid, but the government was made to look reckless and foolish.
Wracked by economic difficulties and the political impact of the Loans Affair scandal, the Whitlam Government was vulnerable throughout Whitlam had been forced to sack Dr. He was replaced by a young Paul Keating. Whitlam refused. There followed three weeks of constitutional crisis as the parties confronted each other in Parliament and the country. The crisis raised a number of crucial questions about Australian democracy and centred on a disagreement between Whitlam and Fraser over the rights of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Whitlam asserted the primacy of the House of Representatives and his right to govern so long as he retained a majority there, whereas Fraser claimed that a government denied Supply by the Senate should resign. This was a fundamental dispute about how we choose Governments. The conflict also highlighted the importance of constitutional conventions in the Australian system. The Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, took an active interest in the crisis, talking to both Fraser and Whitlam at various points during the period following October At one point, Fraser offered to pass Supply, provided an election was called by the middle of She plans to travel from Melbourne to Canberra to access the letters once coronavirus-related travel restrictions are lifted, local media reported.
Her legal challenge, which initially failed in a lower court last year, had been crowdfunded by a "Release the Palace Letters" campaign. Obituary: Gough Whitlam. Image source, Getty Images. What happened to Gough Whitlam? Gough Whitlam raged against his sacking in What are the letters? Related Topics. Queen Elizabeth II Australia. Before the full release, director general of the archives, David Fricker, presented a quick briefing of some of the key letters.
In May the high court of Australia finally ordered that the letters were in fact commonwealth records and must be released. I was of the opinion it was better for Her Majesty not to know in advance. But other letters from as early as July showed that Kerr had discussed, with the palace, the legal validity of his dismissing Whitlam for months before the decision.
In a letter sent to the palace on 3 July, Kerr enclosed a clipping from the Canberra Times that raised the possibility of his dismissing Whitlam. He could, for good and sufficient reasons, revoke the commissions of a prime minister or other ministers…The good government of Australia, especially at a time of grave economic disruption, is the only thing that counts and the most extreme steps to ensure this must be taken if there is no other way. I do not believe this to be true.
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