The letters, sent during the dismissal in 1975, are reigniting debate about whether Australia should be a republic
SYDNEY—Newly disclosed correspondence detailing what Queen Elizabeth II knew about the sudden ouster of an elected leader in Australia in the 1970s is reigniting a debate about whether the country should become a republic.
The dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s government by the queen’s representative in 1975 sparked a constitutional crisis and speculation about whether the British royal family had interfered in Australia’s politics.
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