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Antony Whitlam, the son of former prime minister Gough Whitlam, has revealed he believed claims that correspondence between the Queen and the then-governor-general during the Whitlam dismissal be kept private were “nonsense”. More than 200 letters were sent between Queen Elizabeth II and the Governor-General Sir John Kerr during 1975 at the height of the Gough Whitlam dismissal. The letters were then locked away in the National Archives of Australia for 31 years before they could be publicly released. When 2006 came, however, the…
