Palace letters in Whitlam dismissal to stay secret
THE so-called “palace letters” between the Queen and the former governor-general who played a crucial role in Gough Whitlam’s 1975 dismissal will remain secret in what a historian has called a “national humiliation”.
Professor Jenny Hocking yesterday lost her latest legal fight to access the dozens of letters between Buckingham Palace and Sir John Kerr.
The Federal Court dismissed her appeal against a de- cision that the “palace letters” were personal communications of the governor-general rather than official Commonwealth records.