Review of VICE-REGAL notices, leading up to & including the #Whitlam's #dismissal. Dates are the date a of the event not the posting which is usually the next day. Mainly taken from @trove & thereby @canberratimes. Enjoy, I know I did.

My focus starts 18/10/1975 with a big punch up including Whitlam, Fraser, Hayden, Bob Hawke, & calls in Canberra public servants for a general strike

20-Oct-75 Kerr receives Dept Sec, Prime Minister's Dept & Asst Commissioner Public Service Board, then goes to Sydney for evening with Governor NSW 2.png

21-Oct-75 Kerr goes to Canberra, receives Whitlam & administers oaths to Patterson, Keating, In the evening holds a reception for CWL, then receives Fraser at Govt House. 3.png

22-Oct-75 Article: Menzies comes out in support of the Senate: Everything depends on the circumstances; for a government, fresh from the people, to be challenged in the Senate would be wrong; not illegal, but wrong,

22-Oct-75 Article: Menzies: but these are special circumstances: the Whitlam government has in the last 12 months a record of unconstitutionality & misconduct, on a variety of occasions 4.png

22-Oct-75 Kerrs welcome Princess Margaret at RAAF Fairbairn; she is to be a guest at Government House; dinner for her; Whitlam & other big players, including Fraser, attend 5.png

23-Oct-75 Kerr presides over meeting of Federal Executive in Govt House, in the morning. The Kerrs later accompany Princess Margaret to Lanyon Homestead 6.png

24-Oct-75 The Kerrs fairwelled Princess Margaret RAAF Fairbairn, then went to Sydney, Bar Assoc for him, UN for her 7.png

26-Oct-75 Kerrs official engagements in Sydney, return to Canberra 8.png

27-Oct-75 Kerr RSL in Canberra. Then confers knighthood on someone (doesn't say who?) Then evening playing with knights 9.png

28-Oct-75 Kerr plays with Ambassador & military & PSBoard, 10.png

29-Oct-75 Kerr presides over meeting of Executive Council at Govt House, then plays with PService, & his private secretary 11.png

30-Oct-75 Kerr receives ambassador of Iran, Administrator of Christmas Island, entertains Whitlam, McClelland, & presides over a meeting of the Executive Council; Later receives Bill Hayden, Treasurer, and Fraser; then flies to Sydney 12.png

31-Oct-75Kerrs attend WRAAC at Victoria Barracks with Princess Margaret, COS, (doesn't say where she stayed last night, after arriving back from Melbourne, but seems likely Admiralty House?) 13.png

2-Nov-75 Kerr receives Princess Margaret, privately, at Admiralty House, in the afternoon 14.png

3-Nov-75 Kerr receives Whitlam, later presides over a meeting of the Executive Council, then puts Princess Margaret on plane at Sydney Airport, then flies to Melbourne to receive Fraser at the GG's office, then attends a reception at Government House to stay with Governor 15.png

4-Nov-75 Kerrs go to the Melbourne Cup and then play with the Governor 16.png

5-Nov-75 The Kerrs leave Government House in Melbourne (doesn't say where they're off to, it ain't Admiralty House in Sydney, it ain't Canberra) 17.png

6-Nov-75 The Kerrs arrive in Canberra, in the morning. He receives Fraser. In the afternoon he receives Whitlam & afterwards presides over meeting of the Federal Executive. Later receives Hayden, Enderby. They then fly back to Melbourne. 18.png

9-Nov-75 (Been in Melbourne 6th, 7th, 8th???) Kerrs review military parade in Melbourne on Saturday, then motor trades, then fly to Sydney. 19.png

10-Nov-75 Kerr receives Chief Justice Barwick at Admiralty House, in the morning, then they fly to Canberra 20.png

11-Nov-75 Kerr attends Remembrance Day. He later receives Whitlam & determines his commission as PM. He later receives Fraser & administers oath as PM. In the afternoon he receives Fraser, Harders Sec of Attorney-General's dept. Later receives Sebbles, Speaker of theHouse. 21.png

12-Nov-75 Article: Whole system under challenge, Whitlam says 22.png

12-Nov-75 Kerr receives PM Fraser & later administers oaths to Anthony, Lynch, Withers, Greenwood, cotton, Nixon, Peacock, Chipp, Killen, Drake-Brockman, Carrick, Street, Guilfoyle. Followed by meetings Hungarian Ambassador & Europe DFA 23.png

13-Nov-75 Editorial: Cannot be decided on improprieties or bungling. Given the instability, the GG's powers must be defined & debated 24.png

13-Nov-75 Editorial: Irony of the issues 25.png

14-Nov-75 Article: Demonstrations, signs of disquiet, Whitlam carefully moves away from further attacks on Kerr to concentrate on Fraser 26.png

13-Nov-75 Kerr dinner with Sir Anthony Mason at Government House 27.png

14-Nov-75 Kerr presides over meeting of Federal Executive at Govt House Canberra 28.png

17-Nov-75 Kerr receives Attorney General & Dept head . Dinner for retirement of Admiral attended by military & Fraser & Killen 29.png

19-Nov-75 Article: ALP key 'men' shun Dinner for retiring Admiral 30.png

18-Nov-75 Kerr lunch at Govt House with Justice Street 31.png

19-Nov-75 Article: (Tribune Sydney:) Kerr's coup: rule of law is suspended 32.png

19-Nov-75 Kerr presides over meeting of Federal Executive, receives chiefs of Staff 33.png

24-Nov-75 Canberra Times editorial - Questions remain (separate)

26-Nov-75 Article: Kerr mentions the name of sorter in Kingston Mail Exchange in Vice Regal notices, has her over for morning tea for detecting bomb (no luncheon or dinner for working class ?) 34.png

25-Nov-75 Kerr receives COS committee, DOFA, morning tea with sorter Mrs N Smythe 35.png