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'Palace letters' show the queen did not advise, or encourage, Kerr to sack Whitlam government

  • Written by Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
'Palace letters' show the queen did not advise, or encourage, Kerr to sack Whitlam governmentAAP/EPA/Toby Melville

For more than four decades, the question has been asked: did the queen know the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, was about to dismiss the Whitlam government, and did she encourage or support that action?

The release of the “palace letters” between Kerr and the palace can now lay that question to rest. The answer...

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