The Politics of Biography

In the 2018 Hazel Rowley Memorial Lecture, Jenny Hocking explores a matter that goes to the heart of questions of power and sovereignty in 'Australia, the secret role of the Palace in the dismissal of the Whitlam government', and her latest book, 'The Dismissal Dossier: Everything You Were Never Meant to Know About November 1975 – the Palace Connection'.

Do Australians know the full story of the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the extent of the Queen’s involvement? Gough Whitlam's award-winning biographer Jenny Hocking is pursuing the release of letters between Governor General John Kerr, the Queen, Prince Charles and the Queen’s private secretary, Martin Charteris, through Federal Court action against the National Archives of Australia. Under instructions from the Queen, these letters are embargoed.

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