Dismissal Dossier

Here is the definitive story of the most divisive episode in Australias historythe dismissal of Gough Whitlams Labor government. In her award-winning biography of Gough Whitlam, Jenny Hocking revealed the astonishing secret story of the planning and the people behind the dismissal. Never before released material from Sir John Kerrs private papers revealed the secret role of High Court justice Sir Anthony Mason and Kerrs collusion with Malcolm Fraser. Now, Hockings forensic investigations reveal explosive files in the UK National Archives that add a disturbing dimension to this untold story. Hocking reveals the Palace connection and unravels the web of intrigue behind the British Offices link to the dismissal of the Whitlam government in the name of the Queen. She brilliantly brings together this hidden historya mixture of the unknown, the overlooked and the clandestineto write a political thriller: the story you were never meant to know.