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Hocking v Director-General of National Archives of Australia

Hocking v Director-General of the National Archives of Australia (2020) 271 CLR 1; [2020] HCA 19
JurisdictionAustralia
CourtHigh Court of Australia
Year2020
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Correspondence between the Governor-General (Sir John Kerr) and the Queen (the 'Palace letters') constitutes 'Commonwealth records' within the meaning of the Archives Act 1983 (Cth) because they were the property of, and kept by, a Commonwealth institution (the official establishment of the Governor-General), and are therefore subject to the public-access regime.

Area of Law

constitutional

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