The first edition of this work was published in 1997 . This is new edition with a Foreword by Justice Michael Kirby and an Epilogue " '' Did Lionel Murphy really happen ? '' " by the author , 2000 . The book traces Murphy 's life from childhood to his role in the Labor split of the 1950s , his pioneering work as a senator and reformist Attorney-General in the Whitlam government , through to his rise to the bench of the High Court , and to his untimely death , amidst controversy , in 1986 . The author discusses the issue of balancing the need for national security with individual rights and freedoms . The author argues that , in the light of September 11 and Bali , the security legislation proposed , and in part passed , by the Howard government compromises the separation of powers and individual legal and political rights . Christina Hill in the Australian Book Review describes this book as “ a non-judgemental and informative life study : Hardy ’s tireless political activism on behalf of the left , his work as a public figure and as a writer , his late career as a media personality , his disastrous private life ( his drinking , gambling and serial adulteries ) all flesh out the man and his world . ” This is '' ' Volume I ' '' of Gough Whitlam : The Biography . It is a biographical study of the former Labor Prime Minister of Australia . It traces his childhood in the fledgling city of Canberra , his extensive war service in the Pacific and his marriage to Margaret . The biography draws on previously unseen archival material , extensive interviews with family and colleagues , and exclusive interviews with Gough Whitlam himself . The biography describes Whitlam as an extraordinary and complex man whose life was formed by the remarkable events of previous generations of his family . It chronicles his role in changing the Australian political and cultural landscape . This is '' ' Volume II ' '' of Gough Whitlam : The Biography . It is a new updated edition of this second book , with an additional chapter and Epilogue : “ '' I never said I was immortal , merely eternal '' ” , 2014 . This second volume chronicles the period when Gough Whitlam swept to power in the election of December 1972 , becoming Australia ’s twenty-first prime minister . The author describes the following three years during which Whitlam ’s transforming political agenda unfolded . It puts on the record the non-acceptance and resentments of Whitlam ’s political enemies . The narrative builds up to the dismissal of the Whitlam government by Governor-General Sir John Kerr covertly supported by the Chief Justice of Australia , Sir Anthony Mason . This is an entirely separate work which has been updated in 2016 and 2017 . In the light of newly released documents and hitherto unavailable evidence this work covers the secret story of the planning , the people , and the collusion behind the removal of Gough Whitlam . '' ' The ' Palace letters ' case : ' '' In 2016 Jenny Hocking commenced proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against the National Archives of Australia seeking the release of secret correspondence between the Governor-general , Sir John Kerr , and the Queen regarding the dismissal of the Whitlam government . These ‘ Palace letters ’ are held by the Archives and are under the embargo of the Queen , potentially indefinitely . The case was unsuccessful in the Federal Court and in February 2019 an appeal to the Full Court of the Federal Court was rejected by a majority
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