Access to a critical piece of the country’s history is hanging in the balance,or,put another way,placed in a black box by the National Archives never to see the light of day unless the Queen,or her successors,agrees to its release.
The Attorney General has said he will intervene in a High Court battle between the archives and a professor trying to access papers about the Whitlam Dismissal.
Jenny Hocking says the documents,held in the National Archive,have been incorrectly classified as personal records and should instead be seen as an official act.
The High Court will decide a dispute over public access to letters between the Queen and former governor-general Sir John Kerr about the Dismissal of the Whitlam government.