"Out Of Empire: Edward Gough Whitlam" "More than any other part of the old Empire, Australia remains inhibited and limited by its nostalgia for past associations and pretensions which the British nation, and in particular, the British monarch have long since abandoned. Nothing has done more to retard Australia's relations with Britain or to distort the very real and substantial nature of that relationship than the obsessions of the Australian conservatives with the British connection and their manipulation of the monarchy and their exploitation of the perquisites and privileges associated with it." - Edward Gough Whitlam, 1985