Commie tries to seize power

>Commie tries to seize power
>Gets fired by the Queen

Why is this so controversial? Are Australians all communists or something?

Unfortunately yes

>Elements of the Australian military and secret service go behind the Governments back and work with the US to overthow Allende.
>Whitlam finds out.
>Threatens the US he will shut down Pine Gap for the treasonous actions of elements of Australians defence/intelligence community.
>US get a CIA shill into position of Governor general.
>CIA shill works with the Liberals to block supply.
>They kick out what was a very popular Government that was threatening a more neutral stance because of the actions of elements of Australias defence community who have more loyalty to the United States than Australia.

If he was so popular and wronged, why didn't he win the election?

Why did the Liberals win a majority a few months ago?

Australians are uninformed idiots.

Fraser was a fucking terrible Prime Minister, even Liberals recognize this. The only decent thing he did was set up the regional refugee solution for the Vietnam war.

>>They kick out what was a very popular Government

This is an utter joke, he had the largest electoral defeat ever in Australia's political history. This is far more than just dumb voters here, he even lost the support of labor for life voters. The libs in the latest election got a bare majority Whitlam on the other hand lost so hard the Labor party almost dropped from being the second largest party. He fucked over the economy by implementing tons of popular but unsustainable social programs which he initially hid through borrowing tons of money including his attempts to do it through shady Iraqi oil men without going through treasury.

Thats why he didnt do shit when the Governor General sacked him because he knew he had no popular support. Had it happened early on when he was the Golden Boy he could have challenged it.

Now that the mess he created has blown over and people have forgotten how bad it was they have a warped nostalgia for him and invent conspiracy theories to explain why he lost so hard despite them remembering him as being popular"

>US get a CIA shill into position of Governor general.
But Whitlam recommended Kerr, are you saying that US somehow brainwashed him into choosing the person who was going to fire him?

>CIA shill works with the Liberals to block supply.
Is this a different shill? Because the Governor General has no power over supply. The only alternative is that the US bought more than half the government and all the states against a single man. Wouldn't it be easier to just pull another Holt?

This story doesn't make a lick of sense.

People always want to blame the US for their failings.

The whole conspiricy is based on the fact that Bob Hawke a future PM who was effectively Australia's Maragert Thatcher used to chat with a member with the CIA/embassy staffer

>But Whitlam recommended Kerr,

His biggest mistake and against the wishes of his own party who already suspected him of being a spook.

>Kerr had been appointed, at least in theory, by the Queen. Ironically, she had done so at Whitlam’s recommendation, which he had made against the wishes of his party’s left-wing. Kerr’s action added to Whitlam’s reputation as a bad judge of character, a man easily taken in.

>Certainly the warning signs were there, for John Kerr had been intimately involved with CIA fronts for a number of years. In the 1950s he joined the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, an organization spawned by the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom, Kerr became a member of the organization’s executive board in 1957 and also wrote for its magazine Quadrant. One article, in 1960, was entitled “The struggle against communism in the trade unions”, a program and tactic, as we have seen, the CIA has consistently accorded a high priority to throughout the world.

>In 1966 Kerr helped to found Lawasia (or Law Asia), an organization of lawyers in the Far East funded by the Asia Foundation. The Foundation was one of the most prominent CIA fronts for over a decade, with offices and representatives in all the major capitals of Asia; one of its prime missions, Victor Marchetti has written, was “to disseminate throughout Asia a negative vision of mainland China, North Vietnam, and North Korea”.29 Kerr became Lawasia’s first president, a position he held until 1970. He describes the organization as “a non-communist group of Asian lawyers” which the Asia Foundation supported because “the rule of law is a good thing, a strong legal profession is a good thing, and talk between lawyers is a good thing.”30

>“There was a bit of a celebration” in the CIA when Whitlam was dismissed by Kerr, reported Christopher Boyce, ...The CIA, he said, referred to Kerr as “our man”.51

The only thing Australian politics is good for is the banter

Also

>Matters reached the spark point in autumn 1975. Whitlam dismissed the heads of both ASIO and ASIS in separate incidents, the latter because the agency had been secretly assisting the CIA in covert activities in nearby East Timor.14 Then, at the beginning of November, it was revealed in the press that a former CIA officer, Richard Lee Stallings, had been channeling funds to J. Douglas Anthony, leader of the National Party, one of the two main opposition parties. It was reported that Stallings was a close friend and former tenant of Anthony’s, that the secret facilities in the hinterland were indeed CIA creations, and that Stallings had been the first head of much of the operation.15

>A year earlier, an Australian political journalist, Ray Aitchison, had published a book called Looking at the Liberals (the Liberal Party, the other important opposition party, was actually rather conservative), in which he claimed that the CIA had offered the opposition unlimited funds in their unsuccessful attempt to defeat the Labor Party in the May 1974 parliamentary elections.16 Subsequently, a Sydney newspaper reported that the Liberals had been on the receiving end since the late 1960s, and quoted the remarks of former CIA officer Victor Marchetti, who confirmed that the CIA had funded both of the major opposition parties.17

>Whitlam publicly repeated the charges about Stallings and insisted upon an investigation of the facilities, to identify once and for all their true nature and purpose. At the same time he demanded a list of all CIA operatives in Australia.

>The Australian military-intelligence complex appears to have been spurred into a flurry of activity. On 6th November, the head of the Defence Department reportedly met with the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, and afterward declared publicly: “This is the greatest risk to the nation’s security there has ever been.”18

The economy was already dead by the late Menzies years. Whitlam just happened to be the guy who sat on top of the OPEC landmine. It took a Labor PM to fix the mess that Menzies made when he decided to turn Aus into a third world country and America's wiping boy.

>On the eighth, another senior defence official held a meeting with Kerr in which he briefed the Governor-General about allegations from the CIA that Whitlam was jeopardizing the security of the American bases in Australia.19 The same day, the CIA in Washington informed the ASIO station there that all intelligence links with Australia would be cut off unless a satisfactory explanation was given of Mr. Whitlam’s behavior.20

>On 9 November, Kerr was received at the Defence Signals Directorate for yet another briefing.22 The following day, the ASIO station in Washington, at the request of the CIA, sent a telex to its headquarters in Australia in which it stated that “CIA can not see how this dialogue with continued reference to CIA can do other than blow the lid off these installations”.23 In addition to Stallings, the names of his successors (senior CIA officers) and the CIA station chief in Canberra had appeared in the press.

>Kerr, who was taken with the world of spookery and regularly saw classified material, in all likelihood was aware of the ASIO telex and the CIA ultimatum.24 On the 11th, he dismissed Whitlam as Prime Minister, dissolved both houses of Parliament, and appointed Malcolm Fraser, the leader of the Liberal Party, to head an interim government until new elections could be held on 13th December. In the hours between the appointment of Fraser and the dissolution of Parliament, the Labor majority in the House of Representatives pushed through a no-confidence motion against Fraser, an act which obliged the Governor-General to dismiss the Liberal leader in turn. Kerr chose to ignore this maneuver, which was a legalistic one, although his dismissal of Whitlam was no less a legalistic act.

>The economy was already dead by the late Menzies years. Whitlam just happened to be the guy who sat on top of the OPEC landmine. It took a Labor PM to fix the mess that Menzies made when he decided to turn Aus into a third world country and America's wiping boy.

Nonsense borrowing horrendous amounts of money for social schemes so poorley funded they make the American Social Security scheme look sound is not fixing the country.

When I say Hawke is Australia's Thatcher I dont do it as an insult but in reference to his neoliberal shift and the crushing of union militancy.

>His biggest mistake and against the wishes of his own party who already suspected him of being a spook.
Right, so why didn't Kerr dismiss him earlier given the ample opportunities to do so. Why did he wait until the government was almost entirely out of money? Kerr could've dismissed him earlier and used his friends over at the CIA to draft up some documents playing up his involvement with Communist China if they really wanted him gone.

Its still not making much sense, especially since every PM we've had has been part of at least one large international think tank, stuff like the fabian society, freemasons and so on. Why did it take so long to act?

>good name
>good face
>got fired by queen
>sacced intel heads of asio and asic

boss confirmed

t national anarchist

>cucks living in a nanny state get butthurt about commies getting btfo

Wow, what a surprise.

Huh? They acted incredibly quickly.

It's likely the CIA had started to put into motion the coup to overthrow Whitlam in August (this is when he purged the CIA spooks in ASIO and ASIS and started making threats against the US). By mid November, Whitlam was gone.

Whitlam basically even admitted that the CIA was involved in the coup.

>United States Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher made a special trip to Sydney to meet with him and told him, on behalf of US President Jimmy Carter, of his willingness to work with whatever government Australians elected, and that the US would never again interfere with Australia's democratic processes

can the cia just please fucking everything up

>>United States Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher made a special trip to Sydney to meet with him and told him, on behalf of US President Jimmy Carter, of his willingness to work with whatever government Australians elected, and that the US would never again interfere with Australia's democratic processes

How interesting lets take a look at the source

Whitlam, Gough (1997), Abiding Interests, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-2879-7

Do you have a source that isnt the sacked persons autobiography?

How did the CIA rig the election that followed?

t. FriendlyJordies

Don't you have Union cum to guzzle down, you unintelligent pussy?

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>FriendlyJordies
He has never EVER been a paid shill. Not once, not NEVER.

(except for that one time...)

>How did the CIA rig the election that followed?
The same way they always do it Polly Prissy Pants.

Isn't it coffee break time in Langley?

Tell your handler I said hello.

>"The same way they always do it"
>has no idea
>can't handle the fact his "hero" was absolutely hated by Australia