Part one of term paper
"More than any other part of the old Empire, Australia remains inhibited and limited by its nostalgia for past associations and pretensions which the British nation, and in particular, the British monarch have long since abandoned. Nothing has done more to retard Australia's relations with Britain or to distort the very real and subst ...

Part two of term paper
... Minister ever, and the Australian with arguably the most reason to resent our country's ties with Britain. For on Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor General, Sir John Kerr, invoked his reserve powers to dismiss Whitlam as Prime Minister, something he could only do because he was supposedly acting on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II. Thus, it is to be expected that out of all of Australia's leading figures, Whitlam would have the most reason to feel strongly, one way or the other, about our "mo ...