The main thing we learned is that even our supposedly republican Prime Minister won't stand up to the Queen for the right of all Australians to access key information about our history, writes Gough Whitlam biographer Jenny Hocking.
An emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace! What could be more exciting!
What we're reading: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death, legal dispute hinges on an Oxford comma, buried negatives from a Nazi-era photographer, AFL season launch film, how 4Chan’s trolls pulled off the heist of the century, and who stopped McCarthy?
We need to keep publicly asking the big questions about our system of government, writes Labor MP for Fenner and Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh.
Abbott campaigns ... something's fishy ... Turnbull's SeaLink connection ...
Republican Malcolm Turnbull was not going to work under a painting of the Queen, write Sally Whyte and Josh Taylor
Richard Cooke investigates Paul Sheehan's journalistic history. And other media tidbits of the day.
Bishop brings home the bacon ... Mal a QE II fan? ... where are they now? ...
Historian and author Jenny Hocking digs into the archives to reveal what Queen Elizabeth II knew and when she knew it.
Queen Elizabeth II receives another, figurative, crown. And other media tidbits of the day.