“I wanted to throw up” was how one victim described her reaction to the news of Annabel “Belle” Walker’s somewhat sanitised account of her lies and deception.
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The release of the Palace Papers last year was meant to settle one of the enduring questions of the 1975 dismissal: was there a smoking gun implicating Buckingham Palace and the Queen in the decision of governor-general Sir John Kerr to sack the Whitlam government?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it did no such thing. The ardent republicans and Whitlam supporters saw nods and winks from the Queenâs private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris, to Kerr. The monarchists and Coalition supporters were insistent it was all Kerrâs doing.
Lawyers feasted over the 212 letters from Kerr and Charterisâ replies to build a case for or against the palace. Two of the more famous â former High Court justice Michael Kirby and expat barrister Geoffrey Robertson, QC â have now done so in lengthy pieces for the July issue of
Last weekend, a packed out auditorium in Sydney’s east was treated to a historical and legal tour de force on the theft of the Parthenon Sculptures by the
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