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Queen's Australia rep was assured of power before '75 crisis

by Associated Press
| July 13, 2020 9:30 PM

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s office assured her representative in Australia he had the power to bring down the Australian government a week before he took the extraordinary move in 1975 and created a political crisis, according to letters released on Tuesday.

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