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Dismissing Pearl

Why Kerr really was the villain of the piece

5 December 2020

9:00 AM

5 December 2020

9:00 AM

Contrary to claims in two articles by David Pearl in these pages (‘The demonisation of Sir John Kerr’ and ‘Dismiss dismissal dogma’) our revelations about the former governor-general and his dismissal of the Whitlam government depict the authentic Kerr, not the so-called pantomime version.

The primary source material on Sir John Kerr is now immense – his own memoirs, his oral history for the National Library, the hundreds of pages of Kerr papers, letters and notes in the National Archives and now 212 letters to and from Buckingham Palace covering his period as governor-general.

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