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| | National Museum of Australia - Gough Whitlam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The Australian Labor Party had been in opposition for 23 years, and Whitlam, who had reformed the ALP's policies, was keen to bring a program of social reform to the people of Australia. |
 | | The crisis climaxed on 11 November 1975, when the Governor-General, John Kerr, withdrew Whitlam's commission as Prime Minister, commissioned the Liberal leader, Malcolm Fraser to form an interim government until a general election could be held, and dissolved the parliament. |
 | | After perhaps the most bitter and divisive election campaigns in Australian history, Malcolm Fraser's Liberal-NCP coalition routed the ALP at a general election on 13 December 1975, winning 56% of the overall vote, 91 of the 127 House of Representatives seats, and 35 of the 64 Senate seats. |
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