1975 The Ballads of the Whitlam Dismissal uses bush ballads and investigative journalism to commemorate the Whitlam Dismissal in 1975 with forensic detail, smoking guns, the guilty called to account and Australian democracy given a gentle push to maintain our independence.
Gough was confronted by an army of opponents: the Murdoch and Packer press, monarchists, militarists and misogynists, an antiquated judicial system, Buckingham Palace, the US government's CIA and Australia's own Governor General, John Kerr.
It was Kerr who stabbed Whitlam in the back after Whitlam appointed him as GG. People will argue about the politics but everyone agrees this is an epic story with mythological dimensions, King Lear meets Game of Thrones."
With 50 years hindsight, it is time for Australia to make up its own mind about what happened on 11 November 1975.
