John Kerr
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) and US Secretary of State John Kerr speak after their meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels on April 22, 2013.
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Whitlam radical, Fraser arrogant, Hawke moderate: Secret cables reveal Murdoch insights
improve much of that time." Murdoch was prescient. Just short of one year later, on November 11, 1975 Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Whitlam as the prime minister after the opposition blocked the budget in the Senate. The Labor government was crushed from The Age Read more »
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Worksheet
: wiki John Kerr The news that Whitlam had been dismissed spread across Australia during the afternoon, resulting in angry protest demonstrations by his supporters. Over the following month, leading to the double dissolution election scheduled for 13 December from EssayClub.com Read more »
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John Kerr & Brian Powell: The Fox News Campaign To Tie Benghazi To Watergate
In the run-up to the May 8 House Oversight Committee hearing on the 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Fox News personalities repeatedly attempted to smear President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by equatin from Media Matters for America Read more »
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Thatcher biography reveals adviser's early warnings
thought of sacking Geoffrey Howe, her first chancellor who eventually triggered her downfall in 1990, as early as 1981. John Kerr, Howe's private secretary at the time, said she was "quite full of whisky" during a row in the run-up to the autumn statement from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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Hawke's Nazi outburst to US embassy
DAYS after the November 11, 1975 dismissal of Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke briefed US Embassy officials in Canberra, likening Sir John Kerr to "von Hindenburg", the man who appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany and gave rise to Nazism. Mr Hawke, who from NEWS.com.au Read more »
