“My proposition was that #Gough should ask (HM) the #Queen to accept his advice to appoint a new #GovernorGeneral,” he said. “In the event that #Kerr resisted, I said to Gough he should be put under police arrest.”
“That is certainly what I would have done if I was #PrimeMinister.”
Keating, in his first filmed interview on the dismissal for the Museum of #AustralianDemocracy at Old Parliament House in #Canberra, said there was a risk that Kerr could win support from the (ADF) Army to protect him from arrest as he was the nation’s commander-in-chief. This was an issue that #Whitlam had to consider. In other words, you’d have to have the #soldiers with you for this to happen,” — Paul Keating, PM, ‘91 - 96.
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