Martin Charteris

The political neutrality of a sovereign head of state in a constitutional monarchy also goes to the core of the Westminster system that operates in Australia.

The most obvious thing we can take from these letters is, again, something we already know and have known for a long time. That is that the monarchy should have no place in Australian politics.

The correspondence contained the letter of dismissal issued to Whitlam, a legal opinion from high court chief justice Garfield Barwick, and a letter addressed to Kerr from the opposition leader, Malcolm Fraser.