Queen tipped off on Kerr dismissal plans

By Paul Osborne
Updated April 15 2021 - 12:27am, first published July 14 2020 - 11:02am
Letters between Sir John Kerr and the Queen during the 1975 Labor dismissal have been released.
Letters between Sir John Kerr and the Queen during the 1975 Labor dismissal have been released.

The Queen was told of Sir John Kerr's consideration of the dismissal of prime minister Gough Whitlam months before the historic decision of November 11, 1975.

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