Today's decision of the High Court has the potential to re-open the Republic debate, and old wounds.
Historian Jenny Hocking has won her High Court bid to access the letters exchanged between then governor-general Sir John Kerr and the Queen around the time of the dismissal of the Whitlam government.
Key points:
- The High Court rules the documents, known as the "Palace letters", are public not private
- Historian Jenny Hocking has been fighting for access to the correspondence since 2016
- The letters and clippings may shed light on what the Queen knew about the Whitlam dismissal
Until now, the National Archives of Australia had refused to release the documents, known as the "Palace letters", saying they were private papers.
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-29/high-cour...nny-hocking/12299164
If it turns out that Lizzie was in on the "fix", there will be, correctly in my view, questions to be asked about the place of the pommie royal family in Australia's constitutional system.
