The Truth of the Palace Letters by Paul Kelly

Author:Paul Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing

I have seen no evidence at all in the Palace letters or in the files of the British government that it wanted the dismissal of the Whitlam government or that it was seeking to thwart a half-Senate election. The British government in 1975 was a Labour government. It had no ideological interest in seeking the dismissal of a Labor government in Australia. The only concern expressed by British officials at the time was that the Queen could be drawn into a political controversy … so the UK government did not involve itself, and left the issue to be resolved in Australia.31

British High Commissioner Morrice James was a penetrating critic of the dismissal, contrary to unfounded suggestions he wanted to see the back of Whitlam. In our previous book we revealed his nine-page secret report to London on 20 November 1975. James wrote:

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