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'Palace letters' reveal the palace's fingerprints on the dismissal of the Whitlam government

  • Written by Chris Wallace, Associate Professor, 50/50 By 2030 Foundation, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra
'Palace letters' reveal the palace's fingerprints on the dismissal of the Whitlam governmentIndependent Australia

The “palace letters” show the Australian Constitution’s susceptibility to self-interested behaviour by individual vice-regal representatives. They also reveal the vulnerability of Australian governments to secret destabilisation by proxy by the Crown.

They reveal a governor-general, fearing his own dismissal,...

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