The first thing to be said about the Dismissal is that it was not something that happened on a single day. It was a series of ...

Sir John Kerr is being hailed “an Australian hero” for sacking Gough Whitlam as prime minister in 1975, and the Senate ...

This newly uncovered material, exclusively published by Crikey, is the first indication from Sir John Kerr himself that Queen ...

Next Tuesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the occasion on which governor-general Sir John Kerr legitimately employed a ...

A crossbench Lord took down the current government’s highly-controversial attitude towards asylum seekers on Monday in a scathing speech. Sir John Kerr, a former UK ambassador to the US with a ...

Next week is the 50th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam government. We’re joined by Niki Savva and David Solomon to talk about their memories of that day.

Former judge and one-time ministerial adviser Howard Nathan has held onto this secret for 50 years, but was determined to ...

The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer “personal” and the property of ...

National Archives of Australia Director-General David Ficker speaks, in Canberra, Tuesday, July 14, 2020, about the release of more than 1,200 pages of letters between Queen Elizabeth II's office and ...

On July 14, Jenny Hocking was breathless. “Forty-five years after they were written,” the political scientist pennedwith excitement in The Conversation, “hundreds of previously secret letters between ...

LIKE A TIME-BOMB, they have rested in Australia’s national archives for 42 years. On July 14th the “palace letters” were at last made public, revealing secrets about one of Australia’s most explosive ...