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* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Big Reveal : Jenny Hocking on What the ‘palace Letters’ May Tell Us, Finally, about The Dismissal,
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'Forty-five years after they were written, hundreds of previously secret letters between the queen and the governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, relating to the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975 will be released in full by the National Archives of Australia this morning.'
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Kerr’s Curse, the Gough Whitlam Dismissal and the Palace Letters,
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'The release of 211 letters from 1975 to 1976, between the then governor general Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace, after a hard-fought court battle by historian Professor Jenny Hocking, reveal collusion between the Palace and Sir John Kerr in the sacking of a democratically elected Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam.'
- My Life in Lockdown : Q and A with Professor Vrasidas Karalis, single work column
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