Mercury (Hobart)

Palace letters in Whitlam dismissal to stay secret

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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.

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