Since the “sensational” revelations made by Prince Harry in “Spare”, more details are coming out about how the Windsors protect their interests, particularly their land and financial investments, but also how they go to extreme lengths to keep their business secret from taxpayers and inquiring academics and journalists. Only certain, favoured researchers and commentators are ever granted access to the Royal Archive at Windsor where people are closely supervised as Julia Baird told us. This applies not only to the UK but also to Australia and, no doubt, to the recorded relationships between the British monarch and all of their 13 other realms. Our Governor-General’s records are transported to the Royal Archive where they remain under lock and key. FOI legislation does not apply to the Windsors in the UK or Australia. The author of this article, Jemimah Steinfeld, Editor in Chief of Index of Censorship refers to Jenny Hocking’s successful but lengthy campaign right up to the High Court for access to copies of correspondence between Governor-General John Kerr and the Palace held in the Australian Archives but WfaAR does not agree that the documents – around 200 pages – now released reveal any role played by the Queen in the dismissal of the Whitlam Government contrary to what is stated here – as Anne Twomey said at the time in 2020, there was no smoking gun implicating the Queen directly in actions taken by the Governor-General in 1975.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
