John Menadue's account of the Dismissal

Page one of John Menadue's notes on the events of the Dismissal

As Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department, John Menadue was intimately involved in the events surrounding the removal of the Whitlam government. This is an account of those events, recorded the day after the Dismissal on 12 November 1975.

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NAA: A1209, 1975/2448

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