Power & Propriety: Coper’s Encounter with the Dismissal

Abstract

[This is a non-final version of a book chapter considering the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government in 1975, associated constitutional debates and controversies, and Prof Michael Coper's analysis of that constitutional crisis in his monograph Encounters with The Australian Constitution. The chapter in final form appeared as one chapter in in J Stellios (ed), Encounters with Constitutional Interpretation and Legal Education (Federation Press, 2018)].

Keywords: The Dismissal of the Whitlam Government, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Conventions, 1975, Australian Constitutional Law