The Search of the Palace Letters
2024
Streaming Video
This remarkable documentary tells the story of Professor Jenny Hocking, the historian who took on the Australian Government and HM Queen Elizabeth II in a landmark legal battle - and won. Based on the best-selling book "The Palace Letters" by Jenny Hocking, Scribe 2020.The Search of the Palace Letters follows historian Professor Jenny Hocking as she fights a David and Goliath battle against the Australian Government and the British Royal Family in a landmark legal action. At stake is whether letters between former Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr and HM Queen Elizabeth, written at the time of the constitutional crisis of 1975, are deemed private correspondence and therefore remain closed, or official documents that should be accessible to the Australian people. The case itself ran for more than four years but Jenny Hocking's struggle to open the secret archives on the Queen's role in the unprecedented dismissal of the Whitlam Government developed over more than a decade. This feature-length documentary follows the personal struggle and immense legal battle faced by Hocking as she goes all the way to the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the land, in her bid to uncover the last piece of the extraordinary jigsaw that is the 1975 dismissal.
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Imprint:
Australia : Sue Maslin, 2024.Sydney : Beamafilm Pty. Ltd.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file (60 min.) )
Notes:
Available online at Beamafilm.EnglishDescription based on online resource; title from title screen.
Credits:
Director, Daryl Dellora
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Jenny Hocking,Tom Brennan,Antony Whitlam,Malcolm Turnbull
Audience:
PG Australian Classification BoardPG Beamafilm or New Zealand Standards OrganisationPG Beamafilm or British Standards OrganisationPG Beamafilm or Irish Standards OrganisationPG Beamafilm or American Standards OrganisationPG Beamafilm or Canadian Standards Organisation
Language:
English
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Index terms:
1970sAustraliaUkHistoryWomenCurrent AffairsCareersLawPoliticsSocial CommentaryBased On A BookDocumentary
BRN:
806835
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