Constitutional crisis, 1975

Component identifier:

Series 11

Content Summary:

Three folders of letters, papers and newspaper reports collected by Sawer which relate to the dismissal of the Whitlam Government in November 1975. The materials contain discussions of the so-called 'loans affair', copies of relevant Attorney-General's Department opinions and a typescript on the constitutional crisis prepared by Sawer.

Correspondents include A.R.G. Prowse, First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department and Colin Howard, Hearn Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were donated to the Library by Sawer and his wife Nancy in four instalments in 1971, 1995, 1996 and 1998.

Names:

Sawer, Geoffrey, 1910-1996

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