Forty-five years ago, on 11 November 1975, prime minister Gough Whitlam drove to Yarralumla, sat down, attempted to call an election, and was dismissed by the governor general, Sir John Kerr.
Later that day Whitlam stood on the
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Here is more on those two top politicians in Latin America testing positive for coronavirus: Venezuela’s second-most powerful man and Bolivia’s interim president have both announced they have tested positive for Covid-19 – the latest top Latin American politicians to
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Designed to cushion the blow from rising unemployment and to
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Metropolitan Melbourne will go into stage-three lockdown for six weeks from 11.59pm on Wednesday after the state of Victoria recorded 191 new cases of coronavirus since Monday, the highest daily increase since the pandemic began.
The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews,
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