In this Nine News footage from 1967, Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam extends his condolences to Harold Holt's wife and family.

One of Canberra’s, and Australia’s, most dramatic events was the reading of the proclamation of the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government on the steps of Parliament House on 11 November 1975.

Forty years after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government, we look at the NFSA's digital preservation of the surviving original news footage.

On the 40th anniversary of the Governor-General's dismissal of the Whitlam Government, we look at the unfolding events of the day from the perspective of two camera operators who filmed them.

Less than a decade after the Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was dismissed on 11 November 1975, an Australian TV drama based on the events was released.