Palace Letters
Palace Letters What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in…
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Palace Letters
What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? This ruse has furthered the fiction that the queen and the Palace had no warning of or role in Kerr's actions.In the face of this, Professor Jenny Hocking embarked on a four-year legal battle to force the Archives to release the letters. And why weren't we told?Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the letters between the queen and the governor-general about the dismissal have been locked away for decades in the National Archives of Australia, and embargoed by the queen potentially forever.
In 2015, she mounted a crowd-funded campaign, securing a stellar pro bono team that took her case all the way to the High Court of