Abstract
For 45 years, hundreds of letters between the Queen and the Governor-General Sir John Kerr relating to Kerr's unprecedented dismissal of the Whitlam Government were kept under lock and key in the National Archives of Australia (Archives), closed to the Australian public and lost to our history under the embargo of the Queen. After a four-year legal battle these 'Palace letters' were released in full in July 2020, against the wishes of the Queen, the Archives and the federal Government, following the High Court's 6:1 decision in the landmark case 'Hocking v Director-General of the National Archives of Australia' (Palace letters case).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 16-21 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Precedent |
Issue number | 166 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |