AUSTRALIA SIR JOHN ROBERT KERR

Approved for Release: 2016/09/08 CO2436820 Sir John Robert KERR AUSTRALIA Governor General Addressed as: Sir John Sir John Kerr, 61, was sworn in as Governor General of Australia on 11 July 1974. A well- known lawyer and public servant, he had been Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales since 1972. The post of Governor General, the Queen's representative in Australia, is charac- teristically apolitical, but Sir John, a onetime Labor Party man who left the party in 1954, astound...