After 45 years, the Australian Republican Movement’s “great conspiracy” over the Whitlam dismissal has come crashing down according to Sky News host chrissmithonair.
After 45 years, the Australian Republican Movement’s “great conspiracy” over the Whitlam dismissal has come crashing down according to Sky News host Chris Smith. Private letters between Queen Elizabeth II and former governor-general Sir John Kerr have been released, revealing Sir John dismissed then-prime minister Gough Whitlam without first informing the Queen.
The National Archives released more than 1,000 pages of documents from Mr Whitlam’s 1975 dismissal, including much sought-after correspondence between the Governor-General and Buckingham Palace. Sixteen years after the dismissal in November 1975, the Australian Republican Movement was formed, and it was the constitutional crisis which “turbo-charged” their hatred for the monarchy.
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