What did Kerr tell the Queen leading up to Whitlam's dismissal? Legal bid to force release of Palace letters

By Tony Wright
Updated October 21 2016 - 8:13pm, first published 8:00pm
The Queen and former governor-general Sir John Kerr. Photo: Fairfax Photo Archive
The Queen and former governor-general Sir John Kerr. Photo: Fairfax Photo Archive
The Queen at her desk in Windsor Castle.
The Queen at her desk in Windsor Castle.
The Queen, with Governor-General Sir John Kerr, meets Gough Whitlam. Photo: Fairfax Photo Archive
The Queen, with Governor-General Sir John Kerr, meets Gough Whitlam. Photo: Fairfax Photo Archive

Forty-one years after Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam government, an Australian court is to be asked to grant Australians access to the final piece of one of the most intriguing puzzles of their modern political history: what did the Queen know, and when?

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