A minor spat in the colonies

[SydneyRover]

A minor spat in the colonies led to the Governor General dismissing a government, throughout this crisis the GG was in touch with the Queen, the letters exchanged through that period have been kept under lock and key but on the 14/07/2020 they will be released in full. There has been many attempts over the years to have the docs released and conspiracies abound as to whether there are skeletons hiding amongst the papers.

‘’Palace letters: Queen's secret correspondence surrounding Gough Whitlam's dismissal to be released on 14 July

Correspondence with former governor general Sir John Kerr to be released in full after Prof Jenny Hocking’s lengthy battle’’

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/09/palace-letters-queens-secret-correspondence-about-gough-whitlams-dismissal-to-be-released-14-july

‘’The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history. It culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, who then commissioned the Leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as caretaker Prime Minister’’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis#:~:text=It%20culminated%20on%2011%20November,Party%2C%20as%20caretaker%20Prime%20Minister.