The Dismissal (movie)
- Production country: Australia
- Producer: Phillip Noyce , George Miller , George Ogilvie , Carl Schultz , John Power
- Production companies: Kennedy Miller Productions, Network Ten
- Genre: History, Drama, TV Movie
- Release date: 3/6/1983
- Run time: 270 min.
Movie description
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.