AWW21 The Palace Letters - Jenny Hocking

Distinguished historian Jenny Hocking fought for over a decade
for access to correspondence between Governor General John Kerr
and Buckingham Palace about the sacking of Gough Whitlam.
Classified by the Palace as “personal correspondence”, Jenny
finally secured their release in June 2020 following a landmark
High Court judgment that decreed they were Commonwealth records.
In her new book, The Palace Letters, Jenny discusses the
implications of the Letters and their release for transparency
and accountability in our democratic system, and for Australian
democracy itself.


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