Sir John Kerr

Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 6)

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 5 The Lost Archive: Government House Guest Books In 2010, I first requested access…

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 5)

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 4 On the afternoon of 11 November 1975, Kerr revealed that he had secretly…

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 4)

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 3 Kerr always claimed that the decision to dismiss the Whitlam government was his…

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 3)

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 2 Through that single act of dismissal, Kerr had breathed new life into the…

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 2)

By Jenny Hocking Continued from Part 1 After years of legal action, still absent from public view are crucial documents…

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Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (Part 1)

By Jenny Hocking Abstract Gough Whitlam was deeply committed to the preservation of history, and keenly attuned to the importance…

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The continual cover up – Jenny Hocking on the strange disappearance of Gough Whitlam’s ASIO file

By Jenny Hocking And it is not just Gough Whitlam’s ASIO file that has been “culled” by the National Archives…

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