Professor Jenny Hocking’s long-running case against the National Archives of Australia for the release of letters between the Governor-General and our Head of State before the dismissal of the Prime Minister in 1975 and the ensuing constitutional crisis enters another stage. The case is about NAA’s and the Queen’s refusal to release documents in response to requests made as far back as 2011. Professor Hocking sets out the background to her case on the link below. [“The ‘Palace Letters’ case heads to High Court” by Jenny Hocking. John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations online 2 July 2019]
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
