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What was the cause of the controversial end to Gough Whitlam's term as Prime Minister?

  • Losing in an Olympic race

  • Committing bank fraud

  • Being dismissed by the governor-general

  • Alien abduction

Answer

Gough Whitlam was controversially dismissed by the governor-general in 1975. The dismissal was triggered by a constitutional crisis that arose when the Senate refused to pass the government's budget. The governor-general, Sir John Kerr, believed that Whitlam had lost the support of the majority of the Australian people and that he had no choice but to dismiss him.
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