Ep1: A Captive of the Archives
For a special live launch of season 2, Clare and Yves are joined by Professor Jenny Hocking, the driving force behind the campaign to unlock the Palace Letters and expose the truth about the Dismissal. Jenny reveals how she contracted archive fever from writing biographies of powerful men, and explains why the history revealed by the letters between Sir John Kerr and the Palace is "far worse than she'd imagined". Plus she shares her dirty little archive secret - a family skeleton in the closet that shocked Gough Whitlam.
Archive Fever Season 2 Zoom launch event, 20 August 2020.
Special guest Prof Jenny Hocking
Co-hosts Yves Rees and Clare Wright
Further Reading
Jenny Hocking, The Dismissal Dossier: The Palace Connection: Everything You Were Never Meant to Know about November 1975 (Melbourne University Press, 2017)
Jenny Hocking, Gough Whitlam: A Moment In History (Melbourne University Press, 2009)
Jenny Hocking, Gough Whitlam: His Time Updated Edition (Melbourne University Press, 2014)
Related Links
Prof Jenny Hocking’s Monash University profile
Follow Prof Jenny Hocking on Twitter @palaceletters