The Queen’s Role in the Appointment and Dismissal of the Governor General
turned_in_not Anne Twomey, The Sydney Papers Online Issue 44
Professor Anne Twomey is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. She is the author of (most recently) The Veiled Sceptre – Reserve Powers of Heads of State in Westminster Systems (CUP, 2018). In discussions of the Whitlam Government’s dismissal by Governor General Sir John Kerr in 1975, there is rarely any consideration…