Why has the release of 1200 pages of letters from the'70s caused such a stir? Who wrote them? And what do they say?
Buckingham Palace gave Sir John Kerr clear guidance he could use controversial “reserve powers” to break a deadlock in Australian politics one week before he cited the powers to sack Gough Whitlam and his government.
The documents behind the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam Government illuminate one of the biggest events in the nation's history.
The Palace letters have just blown apart the claim that the Queen played no part in Sir John Kerr's decisions.
Queen Elizabeth’s private secretary offered detailed advice to former governor-general Sir John Kerr in the weeks before he dismissed the Whitlam government in 1975.
National Archives Director-General David Fricker has addressed the media on the release of records covering the period of Sir John Kerr’s term as Governor-General at the dismissal of Gough Whitlam.
Historian Jenny Hocking says the papers will highlight the"problematic"claim the Palace had no part in the dismissal of the Whitlam government in 1975.
More than 200 letters between former governor-general Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace in the years around the Whitlam dismissal will be made public.
Hundreds of potentially explosive letters that shed light on what the Queen knew in the lead-up to Gough Whitlam's dismissal will be released next month.
Weeks after the High Court ordered the potentially explosive letters be released,the agency holding them won't say when they will be made public.
Hundreds of letters between the Queen and former governor-general Sir John Kerr before the dismissal of the Whitlam government are expected to be released.