That picture of Her Maj has sent Chimmy into a Shimmy. Closet royalist ?
Now the battle to uncover the rug that was pulled from under the Danger to Australia the dangerous FABIAN Socialist Whitlam.Why did we have to fight so hard to see the 'Palace Letters'? They weren't stashed in the Queen's bottom drawerPeter FitzSimons May 30, 2020 — 12.15am
Bravo Professor Jenny Hocking. The Monash University academic and member of the Australian Republic Movement's national committee – which I chair, blah, blah, blah – has fought the good fight for TEN YEARS to get access to the "Palace Letters", the 211 pieces of correspondence between Buckingham Palace and Sir John Kerr, that led up to The Dismissal. And on Friday, the High Court ruled 6-1 in her favour. Ideally, we shall all soon be privy to the contents of that correspondence.The most staggering thing? It is that to this point we little Australians had no right to see correspondence between our own head of state and her representative in Australia, the governor-general, on a matter of such enormous import, even though the letters are in our National Archives, not the Queen's bottom drawer in the third chamber from the left!
Professor Jenny Hocking, with a statue of Queen Victoria behind her, took her fight for the release of the 211 'Palace Papers' letters to the High Court. CREDIT:AAP
The fact we even had to ask the question in the first place is nothing short of embarrassing. On the one hand we argue we are a sovereign and independent nation and, on the other, we couldn't take a peek at correspondence between our two highest office holders on a matter of such import, nigh on half a century later?
That position, my learned friends, was absurd. And good on the High Court for saying so. Most of all though, bravo Professor Hocking who took on major institutional powers, and won. For us of the Australian Republic Movement it is a boost. For that "little Australian" view is still extant. No less than the chief of the Australian Defence Force, General Angus Campbell, has recently written to the Prime Minister and, in the course of giving reasons why a Victoria Cross should not be posthumously awarded to Teddy Sheean, who kept firing at the Japanese even as he went down with HMAS Armidale during the WWII bombing of Darwin, said this might damage our standing among other Commonwealth countries and "potentially with the Queen herself".
Read on to see how Australia was saved from the Danger to Australia the obnoxious Whitlam
https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-did-we-have-to-fight-so-hard-to-see-the-pala...