An author and historian who unearthed long-buried secrets from Gough Whitlam's infamous 1975 dismissal has called on the Australian government for greater transparency on the political scandal's 50th anniversary.

Jenny Hocking – author of multiple Whitlam books including the Dismissal Dossier and The Palace Letters – won a High Court bid in 2020 to release palace correspondence between former Governor-General John Kerr and the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Hocking recently uncovered never-before-seen letters between then-Canadian Governor-General Jules Léger and the Queen's private secretary Sir Martin Charteris from the Library and Archives Canada.

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