and requests for advice -- 7. A 'Statute of Westminster' for the States? -- 8. Whitlam's attempts to change the channel of communication -- 9. 'Royal Style and Titles Act' 1973 -- 10. The Seabed petitions -- 11. Commonwealth attempts to abolish State appeals to the Privy Council -- 12. The Queen of Queensland -- 13. The aftermath of the Sir Colin Hannah affair -- 14. Wran's NSW Liberation Plan -- 15. The bid for freedom from the repugnancy fetter -- 16. A package deal -- 17. The Premier's conferences of 1982 -- 18. The drafting of the 'Australia Acts' -- 19. Direct access to the Queen -- 20. Negotiations with the Palace -- 21. The 'Australia Acts' and the Queen of Australia.

The 'Chameleon Crown' takes the reader behind the scenes into the confidential negotiations between the States, the Commonwealth, the British Government and Buckingham Palace on the termination of the colonial links between the States and the United Kingdom. This was a battle of high politics, played by the likes of Whitlam, Murphy, Bjelke-Petersen, Wran, Fraser and Hawke, in which the sovereignty of the States was at stake.