A recent piece in The Australian concerned a proposition that in the 1970s the then Prince Charles (now King Charles III) might become Governor-General of Australia. Paul Kelly made the following observation concerning the dismissal of Gough Whitlam by Sir John Kerr:
Kerr always knew the prime minister had the constitutional power to remove him.
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