https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-06/Aus%20Music%20still_Molly_Mega%20Menu.png
The Whitlam Dismissal: Ron Ashmore filming Gough Whitlam
https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/uploads/2015/10/26/Gough_Whitlam_and_cameraman_Ron_Ashmore.jpg
Title:
The Whitlam Dismissal: Ron Ashmore filming Gough Whitlam
Year
1975
Courtesy
National Archives of Australia: A6180, 13/11/75/40
Ron Ashmore (highlighted at right in the image) was a camera operator for Channel 9 in Melbourne and an eyewitness to the historic events of 11 November 1975, when Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his government from office.
Ashmore was on the steps of Parliament House with his assistant, John Bowring, and producer Doug Wooding. They were there to interview former Whitlam minister Jim Cairns, when political history unfolded around them.
Read more in The 1975 Whitlam Dismissal: Preserving the Footage
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.