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Anne Twomey

July 2020

The Queen's man: Australian governor-general John Kerr with the visiting monarch in Melbourne in 1977.

Myths of the palace plot to sack Whitlam debunked

The release of the Kerr Palace letters this week, which promised to reveal evidence of interference from Buckingham Palace in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam, proved the very opposite, writes Anne Twomey.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/anne-twomey-h1eqon