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Wednesday, 15 July 2020

The 'palace letters': read the full documents from the national archives here.

Extract from The Guardian

Palace letters

Previously secret correspondence between the Queen and then-governor general Sir John Kerr has been published by the Australian national archives 45 years after Gough Whitlam’s Labor government was dismissed
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Nick Evershed
Tue 14 Jul 2020 12.58 AEST Last modified on Tue 14 Jul 2020 17.25 AEST


The “palace letters” are a series of letters exchanged between governor general Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace during Kerr’s time in office.
The letters cover the critical period leading up to Kerr’s hugely controversial dismissal of Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam’s Labor government in November 1975 and the aftermath.
You can download and read the files here, and we’ve embedded a full copy of the papers below.
If you see anything newsworthy, please bring it to our attention with this form.
Update: You can now also download the entire archive as a single, searchable PDF here, with the caveat that it has been made searchable using optical character recognition which does not always work correctly.
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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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