The first in a series of first-hand accounts of the Dismissal, from the man who was there: John Menadue.
Deceit is the one word that comes to mind when I think about the Dismissal.
Many in the Coalition, with a born-to-rule view after 23 years of conservative rule, believed that the election of the Whitlam Government in 1972 was an aberration.
More bills were defeated in the Senate in the three years of the Whitlam Government than in the previous 72 years.
Ambush and deceit