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“In other words, you’d have to have the soldiers with you for this to happen,” he said in an interview with Niki Savva, the veteran political journalist and columnist for this masthead.
Keating said Whitlam dismissed the idea, arguing the then-prime minister was a constitutionalist.
But Keating said the events of that day were a coup against Australian democracy, led by one man: Kerr.
“It was, in every respect it was a coup. A coup by an individual, not a sort of violent gathering,” he said.
