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The Truth of the Palace Letters shines a light into the corners of the Whitlam dismissal

By David Ferrell
December 12 2020 - 12:00am
"Well may we say God save the Queen". Gough Whitlam in 1975. Picture: Gough Whitlam
"Well may we say God save the Queen". Gough Whitlam in 1975. Picture: Gough Whitlam
  • The Truth of the Palace Letters, by Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston. Melbourne University Press, $29.99.

On the 11th of November, 1975 the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, removed the sitting Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, without the warning that convention obliged. It has been called an ambush and a coup; the Constitutional crisis of our history.

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