A dwindling cohort of aggrieved baby boomers joined in a lachrymose chorus of reignited rage last week when correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace was finally published. Amid the reassuring strains of the It’s Time jingle and the cheap ephemeral accolades of the Twitter mob, Professor Jenny Hocking discerned a ‘smoking gun’ linking the Queen to the termination of Gough Whitlam’s scandal- ridden, accident-prone government.
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