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050  4 $a DU117.17 $b .H63 2020
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100 1  $a Hocking, Jenny, $e author.
245 14 $a The palace letters : $b the Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam / $c Jenny Hocking ; foreword by Malcolm Turnbull.
264  1 $a Brunswick, Victoria : $b Scribe Publications, $c 2020.
300    $a xvi, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm
520    $a 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? 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. 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. 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 Australia. Now, drawing on never-before-published material from Kerr's archives and her submissions to the court, Hocking traces the collusion and deception behind the dismissal, and charts the private role of High Court judges, the queen's private secretary, and the leader of the opposition, Malcolm Fraser, in Kerr's actions, and the prior knowledge of the queen and Prince Charles. Hocking also reveals the obstruction, intrigue, and duplicity she faced, raising disturbing questions about the role of the National Archives in preventing access to its own historical material and in enforcing royal secrecy over its documents.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265).
505 0  $a 'In the shades of history' -- 'I never had any doubts' -- 'Australia owns its history' -- Archival manoeuvres in the dark -- 'Mr Whitlam...would inevitably suspect the U.K.'s involvement' -- Fourteen minutes -- 'Who cares what the Queen thinks?' -- A royal whitewash of history -- 'Constitutionally unthinkable' -- 'My continued loyalty and humble duty' -- 'You will do it good' -- 'For the sake of the Monarchy'.
600 10 $a Hocking, Jenny $x Trials, litigation, etc.
600 10 $a Kerr, John, $c Sir, $d 1914-1991 $x Correspondence.
600 00 $a Elizabeth $b II, $c Queen of Great Britain, $d 1926- $v Correspondence.
600 10 $a Whitlam, Gough, $d 1916-2014.
600 07 $a Elizabeth $b II, $c Queen of Great Britain, $d 1926- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00061556
600 17 $a Kerr, John, $c Sir, $d 1914-1991. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00064094
600 17 $a Whitlam, Gough, $d 1916-2014. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01716434
610 20 $a Australian Labor Party $x History $y 20th century.
610 20 $a National Archives of Australia.
610 27 $a Australian Labor Party. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00539137
610 27 $a National Archives of Australia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00747236
648  7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast
650  0 $a Archives $x Law and legislation $z Australia.
650  0 $a Freedom of information $z Australia.
650  0 $a Conspiracies $z Australia.
650  7 $a Archives $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00814062
650  7 $a Conspiracies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875715
650  7 $a Freedom of information. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934017
650  7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741
651  0 $a Australia $x Politics and government $y 1972-1975.
651  7 $a Australia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204543
655  7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628
655  7 $a Personal correspondence. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919948
655  7 $a Trials, litigation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423712
700 1  $a Turnbull, Malcolm, $d 1954- $e writer of foreword.
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