under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic

By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136

Dismissal of the Whitlam Government

I. Sir John Kerr, The Dismissal & the Age of Folly

The revelations by former Australian High Court judge, Sir Anthony Mason, of his involvement in advising Sir John Kerr prior to the sacking of the Whitlam Labor Party government in 1975 have provoked a flurry of self-justification by politicians and misinformation in the Australian press.  more

II. Sir John Kerr, The Dismissal & the Age of Folly—Part II

On 13th September 2012 the writer sent to the Editor in Chief of ‘The Australian’ a letter which followed his letter of 27th August to the newspaper’s Letters Editor referred to in the first part of this article.  more