“Fifty Years Ago, the US Staged a Coup in Australia
The 1975 “dismissal” of Australian Labor PM #GoughWhitlam… was a bloodless analog of other US-orchestrated coups against reforming left governments”
#auspol #Whitlam #TheDismissal #WhitlamDismissal #PineGap
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Since 1975, nothing of any constitutional significance has changed.
Have no doubt that, given certain political circumstances, the Whitlam Dismissal could be repeated in future.
#WhitlamDismissal
People don't ever seem to ask themselves why old Parliament House in Canberra is now called 'The Museum of Australian Democracy'. It's because, like all museums, it's full of dead stuff. #WhitlamDismissal
Never forget! The present King of the United Kingdom ( and Australia) played a key role in the downfall of the Whitlam Government.
#PalaceLetters
#WhitlamDismissal
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Gough dreamed of a country that never was, and asked why not? #WhitlamDismissal thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
There were so many pieces of the #WhitlamDismissal jigsaw that have barely been disclosed or taken seriously.
What continues to be ignored, 50 years after the #WhitlamDismissal, is that it was the denial - by the LIBERAL and the COUNTRY party members in the Senate - to grant Supply to the Whitlam government that triggered the entire saga.
