Contents

Foreword by Paul Keating

Preface

Introduction

 

  1 An Australian Decision

  2 The Truth of the Reserve Powers

  3 Kerr Cultivates the Palace

  4 The Queen and Recall

  5 A Disgruntled Governor-General

  6 The Judges: Barwick and Mason

  7 Whitlam’s Half-Senate Election Folly

  8 Fraser: Engineer of the Crisis

  9 Kerr: To Resign or Not to Resign

10 Whitlam, Fraser and the Palace

11 Kerr Under Siege

12 Kerr and Charles: A Special Relationship

13 The Republic

14 The Modern Governor-General

 

Epilogue

Appendix: Selected Palace Letters

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index