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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 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.'

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    y separately published work icon Neos Kosmos July 2020 19806589 2020 newspaper issue 2020
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