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Sir John Robert Kerr, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC (24 September 1914 – 24 March 1991) was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977.
John Robert Kerr (1914–1991), lawyer, judge, and governor-general, was born on 24 September 1914 at Balmain, Sydney, eldest of eight children of New South Wales-born parents Harry Kerr, boilermaker, and his wife Laura May, née Cardwell.
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The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General who then commissioned the leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as ...
…to resolve the parliamentary deadlock, Sir John Kerr, Australia’s governor-general (appointed by the British crown on the advice of the Australian government—in this case of Whitlam’s), dismissed him from office on November 11, 1975, and appointed a caretaker administration led by the political opposition.
Kerr was sworn in as the 18th Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Force on 11 July 1974, succeeding Sir Paul Hasluck.
Jul 14, 2020 · The newly released 'Palace letters' have revealed then governor-general Sir John Kerr sacked the Whitlam government in 1975 without giving advance notice to the Queen, because "it was better for Her Majesty not to know".
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Of all Australia’s Governors-General, John Kerr (1914-1991) is the most well-known, the most significant, and the most controversial, his achievements as a barrister and judge eclipsed by the notoriety of his dismissal of the Whitlam Government.1.
