The dismissal of the Whitlam government and the Queen’s embargo of her correspondence with the governor general about it remind us of the lingering power of the “colonial relics”. While the palace letters remain closed to us, at the behest of the Queen, we can never know the full story of the dismissal of the Whitlam government.

Source: The palace treats Australia as the colonial child not to be trusted with its own history | Jenny Hocking | Opinion | The Guardian