by Peter Westmore
The long-awaited release of the personal correspondence between Australia’s Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, and Queen Elizabeth during the political crisis of 1975 that culminated in the dismissal of the Whitlam government, utterly rebuts the conspiracy theories that have swirled around the dismissal for over 40 years.
Among those theories was the view that the United States Central Intelligence Organisation (CIA) interfered at the time – a view widely circulated thr…
