compare this to Rudd's dismissal speech, and the decline of the Labour Party becomes clear. Say what you want about Whitlam, at least he took it like a man
Whitlam was a litany of good ideas that didn't work. I work in education, and we're still cleaning up the mess of unintended consequences caused by the "free election" concept.
@petergills5555 hahahahaha you joker. Go live in Somalia you free market worshipping retard, I'll take a social democrat who recognised that we all pay our fair share to make our nation great before some "hurr we can't increase taxes or have a fair wage, our industry will never survive" toting dickhead.
one of the recent Governor generals got in trouble for something and this quote came up i even wrote the quote thread on the smh.com website. I think they removed it
The last Australian Prime Minister who had any real balls. Since then, whether Liberal or Labour, it's just been about whom to bend over for . . the yanks, more recently the Chinese . .
Dismissal day forever remains a day of shame in Australian politics. Whether you agreed with Whitlam or not; it's about whether you treasure parliamentary democracy or not. Kerr died as a despised twat: the very people who happily used him, were quick to cut him down when he had done the job.
Whitlam won 2 general elections in two years (the 2nd forced by the opposition) but Kerr dismissed him. Sworn (and paid) sentaors refused to vote on the budget. They should have been told to vote.
Kerr was a coward for failing inform Whitlam that he would sack him if supply wasn't obtained, because he feared Whitlam would rightly direct HM to dismiss him as GG. GGs must accept the advice of PMs who command a majority in the House. GGs can only use their reserve power if a PM fails or is unable to command the House's confidence.
The Prime Minister holds that position because he/she can command the support of the HofR. The HofR can support a PM if it has the support of the country. Whitlam could have cleaned the political clocks of his (his own appointee) Kerr, Fraser, and any of his enemies if the ensuing election showed that he and his party had the country's support a few weeks after being sacked. He and they didn't.
@baraxor Yes, I see your point, but the danger is that you end up in situations where opinion polls dictate who should govern, worse you get a govt that employs populist policies fearing their removal by the whims of popular opinion & the GG. That's why elections give the govt a mandate of 3-4 years to run and choose an election date when they feel they need a further mandate.
After GG appointed Fraser, the House objected in 3 votes, but he still dissolved the House & refused to see the Speaker
may we say GOD save the queen because nothing will save labor or liberal at the next election they might as well sleep together as they continue to ignore workers rights GOD save us all from these politicians
Fuck the CIA them and ASIO had everything to do with undermining him..cos he wanted the list of all operatives workiing in Australia...they warned him to back off =..he didnt so they had to get the CIA cocksucker John Kerr to sack him
Inflation actually reached 17% in 1975, created due to cost push inflationary pressures associated with rising production costs (Oil Crisis). But also the Whitlam government spent heaps of money which added to inflation, they spent the savings which liberal gained.
But the Whitlam period wasn't all divisive, it was actually a light of rapid political and social change, it was an ambition so high, but at the wrong time.
And yes there was political scandal some uneducated friends in government
cmon guys, Kerr made the right decision- Whitlam was useless! Inflation increased 10% under his term, unemployment also increased. Money was wasted, and his Ministers had no experience or decent education
@yaketysaks You may, or may not, know that there was actually a worldwide economic crisis at the time, the breakdown of Bretton-Woods and the gold standard, the oil crises and wars in the middle east. Many of his reforms are now beyond politics and neither party would think of touching them (Medicare, for example).
He wasn't a perfect Prime Minister, but he did many good things that hold this country in good stead.
@1CaptainAustralia1 The government is formed from the majority in the House of Representatives, not the Senate. The Bills were passed in the House of Reps, but the Senate blocked them to create a problem for the Labor Party. That doesnt mean that there is no confidence in the Government, there was actually a vote of no confidence in the Liberal-Country Coalition in the House of Reps, so what the Governer-General did cant really be justified on a basis of no confidence in the government.
All the Governor General did is follow the procedure he had to, a majority of parliment blocking supply bills is basically just a vote of no confidence.
@cassieemaree What, the Governor General should have abused his power and told parliament to pass the bills or something? He's just a rubber stamp, if he did much else he'd be interfering, it's not up to him to tell the majority of parliment what to do. The majority of opposition that blocks the bills/shows no confidence in the government becomes the majority that IS the government, simple as that.
@1CaptainAustralia1 Read Gough's little classic "The Truth of The Matter" That should give you a heads up about how the supply issue should have been resolved.
Whitlam is the worst bloody Prime Minister we've ever had closely followed by Paul Keating and what do you know they both lasted a ridiculously short amount of time
@davefach You need to go back to school. Gough's legacy speak for itself, as some of the better informed contributors have pointed out. Repeating the same old mantra from those who obstructed and set out to detroy huis government is wearing thin. I put you to the challenge: identify one other PM whose government achieved more enduring reforms in a three year period. What was Howard's? The GST and WorkChoice? Fraser? Gough did more in 18 months than Menzies did in 18 years.
The out of control crime you witness in Australian society today can be directly traced back to this traitor and his mafia pal Al Grassby.....it is because of them that Islam and its barbaric lifestyle are in Australia today.
We love you Gough! Still the greatest and most visionary Prime Minister in Australia's history (not saying that much really). We need more like him now...
And the updates to the system by Hawke during his tenure were an ineviatable consequence of a system that was well and truely open to abuse. Why is it do you think that you here about people who have been a uni for years and never completed anything or on the flip side HAVE completed a degree and yet have never gained any relevent or worthwhile employment...uni for many people is a waste of time...years spent at great expense to the taxpayer so they can drink beer and smoke pot.
Further to this point also is that there is a disproportionate number of people from this background who go through our courts for a wide range of other offences ranging from common and violent assault, kidnapping & extortion through to fraud of all dimensions, car rebirthing aswell as drug dealing & distribution. Note the key word being "disproportionate" - that being a much higher rate than that for white australians. Many people from these countries have no respect for the law.
and finally Whitlam attempted to acquire funds for his policy ventures through dodgy sources in the middle east with no disclosure to parliament....these too are facts!
Ha didn't know this happens but then again I was born in 91 =). hope Kevin Rudd does more. I like the fact that he I'd building a Fibre Network but why doesn't he reveiw all are laws and stuff and then build a HSR Network like from Cairns to Melbourne etc
my point was: In terms of foreign policy/the economy/arts and culture/infra structure etc, Whitlam modernised a country which had stagnated under 30 odd years of anal retentive conservatives.
spacka99 said Whitlam dragged Australia out of the 1920s yudda yudda. The way the comment is worded implies that Whitlam was in power in the 1920s hence dragging us out of the 1920s which would have made him 15. spacka99 later clarified so no need for further comment.
Whitlam was a criminal and a liar. The ugliness of his self serving character is rivalled on by the ugliness of that dinosaur he is married to. A national disgrace who is remembered by most of Australia as just that!
Pulled Australian troops out of Vietnam, introduced free tertiary education, put finishing touches on the abolition of the White Australia Policy, universal healthcare - medibank. These are facts. Maybe you should provide some to back up your comments.
The US had begun troop withdrawal in 1969 so was ineviatable that Oz would soon follow, we have NEVER had "free" tertiary education in this country - this is a myth...most universities charge fees of some sort and you still have to repay through HECS,and it's medicare not medibank you fool! And what you see around Australia today is the result of Whitlam's ending of white oz policy...ethnic crime of every dimension, Asian & lebanese organised crime, ethnic ghettos across most of our cities etc
Sorry, pulled troops out of Vietnam... and ended conscription. Between 1972 and 1989 when HECS was introduced, tuition fees for teriary institutions for Australian nationals were NIL. When the Whitlam Govt. introduced the universal healthcare scheme it was Medibank. Medicare was the updated scheme introduced by the Hawke Govt. Organised crime is not limited to Asians and Lebanese, and in Australia, a very good early example of this was the Rum Corps - vast majority white caucasian.
Wow...you really are a left wing sod to try and compare something from way back in the annals of history (ie Rum Corps) to the scourge of illicit drugs on modern society in Australia, control of which is mostly in the hands of Lebanese & Asian organised crime groups. If ethnic related crime is not such an issue than why are there special divisions across the various state police units (ie middle eastern/asian crime squads) to deal with the ever growing problem?? You left wingers live in denial!
@danielmy08 nice one, "medicare not medibank." don't call someone a fool then get your facts wrong, might wanna look that one up and re-post that reply
@zing713amw why wouldn't I call you a fool? You talk crap. He was the only PM to ever be dismissed I think that speaks for itself...you are just living in denial.
@danielmy08 he was dismissed by a moron governor general who went behind his back to stich him up, says more about john kerr than it ever will about gough whitlam, Whitlam's legacy will live forever, introducing medicare, free uni at a time of economic turmoil, abolishing white australia, introducing and encouraging a multicultural australia, Equalt rights for woman (equal pay in the workplace). John kerr will be remembered as the twofaced queen suckhole that turfed out australia's best ever PM.
FACT ....... LIBERALS DESTROYED LABOR IN THE NEXT ELECTION!!!! GOUGH WAS INCOMPETENT AND THE AUSTRALIAN VOTERS SAW HIM FOR WHAT HE WAS ...... A WORTHLESS DEAD WEIGHT.
Coalition - 91
ALP - 36
PS. In September 1974, Whitlam met with Indonesian President, Suharto, in Indonesia and indicated that he would support Indonesia if it annexed East Timor. GO HUMAN RIGHTS!!!!
Damn right he was incompetent. Borrowed money from saddam's Baath party, also ruined our economy. thank God he was dismissed. Only a retard would actually this jerk is great
@yourgasm if he had cut back on spending and not borrowed money, you'd be whinging just the same, but for different reasons. he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
@h44512 Nope wrong again. His big govt spending is what is what was wrong with Australia. Let's face it despite all the angry protesters he got his ass handed to him in the 75 & 77 elections. He got destroyed & thats bc ppl realised how bad he was for Australia. A debt driven govt just like the Gillard govt
@h44512 Yeah right, at the same time soaring inflation rate 14.4%,budget deficit at 1.8 GDP,govt spending at a staggering 46% over 2 yrs. Its economic incompetence. Facts are facts,the Australian ppl saw this & punished Whitlam in 75. What was it again? Thats right it was biggest election defeat in political history
@yourgasm Even Paul Keating gave Whitlam a good bashing:'In terms of the Labor agenda this government has left every other Labor government bare arsed. No other government even gets within cooee of it. We have a cabinet which has a degree of economic sophistication which puts the Whitlam government into the cavemen class in economic terms' LOL! 'Whitlam: “That was a good speech.You should go back comrade, and get yourself an honours degree.”Keating: “What for ? Then I’d be like you.” LMAO!
@yourgasm gough whitlam was not booted out as a result of an election.. he was dismissed. the majority of the population weren't happy about it, because look what he did for our country. medicare, womens rights, benefits for indigenous australians, multiculturalism. he made this place fucking awesome.
@h44512 Wrong, he was dismissed. An election was called,he got thrashed and again in 77.There were ppl who were unhappy about his dismissal but when the election came,the Aust ppl responded. Whitlam did not make Aust awesome,he made our country worse by his radical policies which fucked our economy up.
@yourgasm he was not re-elected as a result of menzies pathetic fear of communism, which scared the country. our economy is better than most in the world.
@h44512 Umm no, Menzies was way gone. Fraser called an election & won by a long shot. Had nothing to do at all with the fear of communism. Our economy is better than the rest of the world thanks to passed leaders in this country. Except for Whitlam. Gotta love Keating's jab. “What for ? Then I’d be like you.”
@yourgasm menzies himself may have been way gone, but when a country has been drilled with the fact that communism is awful and SENT TO WAR because of it, the majority of the stayed fearful. and who gives a fuck about keating. do you use medicare? do you enjoy not being left on the streets to die? this man did great things for our country.
@h44512 Menzies in the past did the right thing with the Soviet Spy where now new reports from ASIO have confirmed that what Menzies said about this was quite evident. AND Whitlam was voted out not bc of the communist threat,get your facts right. He was voted out bc the ppl realised how bad he was at his job. He introduced radical reforms that cost us dearly, fair enough you want to bring Medibank in. But he made it radical,Hawke/Keating modified so we won't go into debt.
Face it,Whitlam sucked,got his ass kicked at 2 elections & resigned. I don't like Keating myself but at least knew the importance of economic reform. Hawke & Keating did more for this country than Whitlam. Here's a reflection of 1975 fed election, Liberals gained 30 seats,Labor lost 30,suffered a 7.40.
@h44512 wrong, he got dismissed. An election was called,he got beaten. Voted out. Its not that I think he sucked,its the majority of Australians who thought he sucked
@LABORISTOXIC Damn right, that election was bloody funny seeing the Libearls completely destroy Labor into pieces. Too bad Fraser soldout the Liberals though. And you know what Laboristoxic,the ALP love to pinpoint the Liberals as being liars,corrupt but they don't say a thing about their beloved Whitlam & his closeness to Suharto. Watch Balibo
@danielmy08 Gough was our greatest reformer. The legacy of his ministry endures. There is too much to traverse here, but what needs to be appreciated is that his vision was resisted by those who would not accept that the people wanted the change he promised after 23 years of conservative rule. That is why he won in 1972 and 1974. The so called loans scandal was a typical Murdoch beat up. We have no problem sourcing loans from the Arab Emirates, the Saudi's and Dubai today, now do we?
Kev 07 is fucking our country the same way right now.all this parasite wants every day is his 30sec smiling grab on the nightly news, economic conservative?NO , labor commy useless scum? YES
Sour grapes, the duty of the government is to get its bills through parliament and Whitlam's couldn't so the Governor-General called an election to ensure that government went on. Whitlam could have won that election but he didnt and probably knew he wasnt going to. The problem is the Australian Constitution has no Parliament Act, the same problem happened in the UK just before WW1 after the Parliament Act the upper house can no longer block the budget.
not true under the constitution only the prime minister can call for a double dissolution which is why when Whitlam was sacked Fraser was appointed caretaker PM so that an election could be called
You know personally when I think of it, what exactly was the point of the liberal senate stopping the supply of money? When you consider the fact of the Australian economy at the time, wouldn't Fraser still have won the next election with the same campaign?
the liberals believed that they had moral justification for blocking supply because a) the economy was being severely neglected and they were scared of the state it would be in in 2 years b) the loans scandal and c) a by-election where labor lost by a landslide
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You forgot Socialist Commie Bastard.
GW was in it for himself. and lied, cheated, and made deals with the 'devil' to get what he wanted. Shame on you naive fuckers that press the thumbs down button...
Many beleive the CIA was involved in the conspiracy but probably MI6 and Australian intelligence as well. Because the Queen of England and the city of london banking cabal which run the US Govt and the Australian Govt. When their puppet prime ministers don't behave the way they expect them to. You could get bumped off Kennedy style. I suspect PM Gough Whitlam knew exactly what was going on and that the higher powers had acted. Hence his famous statement :-
So he had no choice either he resigns or he gets a bullet kennedy style assassination
under orders from that top Global Eliteist.
Queen of England out of the City of London banking cabal. Anyway I always have respect for any leader that goes against the global powers that be at the top of the Pyramid global power structure. That is why Gough Whitlam will have my highest respect. All PM's since have been puppets even Keating.
There must have been good reason why the Australian Federal Government was sacked and forced out of governence in 1975.
It still hurts the Australian Labour Party, so to me that is good!
As for multiculturalism, I would prefer if all immigrants were better educated about Australia and have crimminals checks before they are aloud in the country to live permanently.
i prefer if they didnt live in aus all together thing is most of these immigrants leave there country because of wars or bad politics..so they come to australia and all they do is whinge and complain about our politics i think they should all just piss off back to where they came from if they love our country so much then they should respect our rules and way of life not change it 2 suit them they wont learn about australia cause were turning it into every part of the world..its down right wrong
If you did some research on the topic MRMIL057 you would discover that the reason that they were removed from power was due to a stop of supply (money) by the coalition controlled senate, forcing the governor general to take action.
The action he should have taken was to bring both sides into mediation talks, but instead due to many factors including CIA pressure (well documented) he removed the government and install the opposition as a caretaker government.
apparently the governor-general did try mediation talks and failed. still, there's something extremely wrong about a man dismissing the PM that all of australia voted for.
Pathetic! They were dismissed by a useless drunk, and it doesn't hurt the labor party, with todays changing views on socialism it gains more support for the labor party!
"As for multiculturalism, I would prefer if all immigrants were better educated about Australia and have crimminals checks before they are aloud in the country to live permanently."
what so all those bloody lebs and iraqi's and japs and chinks can come into our bloody country and change all our bloody rules to suit there stupid relgion..those bloody muslism are aloud to wear there stupid tea towels when going for photo ID all because they managed to change our rules!! yet we go over there country we are expected to respect theres...load of absolute shit!!..i say bring back the White australian policy and any1 who isnt a citizen get deported and can try again fuck em
"Captain Cook was the very first queue jumper, it was immigrant labour that made Australia plumper, enough is enough, whities go back, get stuffed, don't want to live in England, well that F**cking tough!" Lyrics from "77%" by The Herd. I don't normally resort to personal attacks, but you are clearly a racist, ignorant, uneducated bigot! You are entitled to your opinion, as long as it is founded on something more than right wing facist nazi rhetoric!
Australia as a nation state didn't exist in 1777. Plus, he didn't even settle in Australia. That was done in 1788. So who ever wrote that song has no idea of Australian history. But any way. there was no queue to speak of in 1788. Plus the so called "Aboriginal governments" were a joke. They weren't recognized by any government any where in the world. So, they had no authority.
supremerat, the song is representative of the fact that we all came from somewhere else (england or another country) to a country already occupied by a nation of people, (the Kulan nation). It is also a reference to the Howard Government's treatment of Asylum Seekers as Queue jumpers. Our national anthem states "for those who've come across the seas, we've boundless plains to share. I suppose you would support Hitler and the Nazi's, because they saw the Jews as an inferior group of people?
Thats a bit racist wouldn't you say. you just have to respect other peoples culture and belifes..
"yet we go over there country we are expected to respect theres...load of absolute shit!!..i say bring back the White australian policy"
Firstly This is Australia not "Their country" its different for obvious reasons thats what makes this Country such a good one. and also the white Australia Policy was a racist epic fail, if it was still in place i proberly wouldnt be here..
White Australia was an Economic Policy, designed to create a state of full employment. Which is one of the Requirements of the Reserve Bank. It was an instrumental policy in the development of the nation which, did not discriminate but required immigrants to know an European Language.
mate it was discriminatory. how would you feel that if you were a qualified asian who spoke english perfectly and they asked you to take a dictation test in portuguese?
they could ask you to do it in any european language. how many australians would there have been if they had been as harsh on asians as they were on europeans?
agreed. of course there has to be some constraints on immigration but that dictation test was a load of bullshit because not even europeans would have passed it. a qaulified asian could have tried to come to australia, stated how he was an engineer or something and then said he was fluent in japanese, english, french and german and the tester could have just said "oh thats great, your dictation test is going to be in greek", or italian or any other language.
He also created equal rights for women (your mother or sister or wife/girlfriend), created a universal health care system (protecting you, your family and friend's health), Introduced a one vote one value system that meant that all Australian's were given an equal voice in Australian Politics, provided senate representation to the citizens of the ACT and NT, and much more. Do the research!
Are you really of the belief that you have more ownership of this country as (i assume) an anglo?
Although I wasn't born when Whitlam was PM, I owe a life debt to this great Prime Minister - he destroyed the racist White Australia Policy and started multiculturalism. My parents came to Australia during the Whitlam years...I'm proud to be part of Australia thanks to this guy...yet the dismissal is a problem.
@youngbow2000 Well, you had the Columbo plan under Menzies, who brought in Malayan students. In fact it was Holt who ended racism. Al Grassby, as a minister, was a grub. If Australia is racist...just go home!
Abolished capital punishment, ended conscription, freed concientious objectors, set the wheels in motion for indigenous land rights, established the schools commision, abolished the last remains of white Australia policy, I've never voted labor in my life but if I could have I would have voted for him.
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getting rid of the capital punishment was a mistake because there are some people who should be executed sure hangings are not the must humane way to execute some one but when some one commits a really evil crime like mass murder genocide and crimes like that there is only one punishment and that is death
Where do you draw the line? At what point is it enough to kill someone? 1 death? 10? 100? What does an extra body do to solve the crime? How does stooping to the level of the criminal and killing set an example for society?
What does the death penalty accomplish? It is useless, inhumane, and a complete hypocrisy. Where is the sense in punishing someone by committing the same crime that the guilty committed? It's murder regardless of how you perceive it.
well let me say this one word PAEDOPHILES for example the guy who kidnapped and raped 3 kids in a motel room for 3 days sentenced to 14 years in 1989 released in 2003 arrested afew years later for molesting 2 more little girls just 4 and 5 years old now the question remains would he of been able to molest those little girls if the courts been able to put him to death i dont think i need to answer that but i will end with say one name martin bryant and a famous known killer the backpacker killer.
yeah well my point is that he was released and if there alive then there is always a chance that they will re-offend but if there dead well dead people cant commit crime but at the end of the day it is the means to an end
but they can if you release them and if a sicko like dennis ferguson can get out then so can some one like "martin bryant" just because they say life does not mean they will be in jail for life
Look you are welcome to your own views on the death penalty and I respect your right to them but for me, I've allways been taught that God does not look kindly on malice and really, taking someones life when society would be just as safe with them spending eternity in supermax is malicious.
compare this to Rudd's dismissal speech, and the decline of the Labour Party becomes clear. Say what you want about Whitlam, at least he took it like a man
yaketysaks 1 month ago
Whitlam was a litany of good ideas that didn't work. I work in education, and we're still cleaning up the mess of unintended consequences caused by the "free election" concept.
JohnoUsenko 1 month ago
@JohnoUsenko Sorry, I mean "Free education". Free election is, of course, a good thing. :)
JohnoUsenko 1 month ago
@petergills5555 hahahahaha you joker. Go live in Somalia you free market worshipping retard, I'll take a social democrat who recognised that we all pay our fair share to make our nation great before some "hurr we can't increase taxes or have a fair wage, our industry will never survive" toting dickhead.
ken6346 4 months ago
"Well may we say God save the Queen."
rabble rabble rabble rabble
"Because nothing will save the governor-general."
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
ken6346 4 months ago
gooooooooooo whitlatm
123zoroluffy 5 months ago
one of the recent Governor generals got in trouble for something and this quote came up i even wrote the quote thread on the smh.com website. I think they removed it
vitoduval 6 months ago
The last Australian Prime Minister who had any real balls. Since then, whether Liberal or Labour, it's just been about whom to bend over for . . the yanks, more recently the Chinese . .
corpbs1 9 months ago in playlist ACTIVISM / POLITICS - GOUGH WHITLAM
dam, i want free tertiary education back *gleams*
chubbyblob 10 months ago
Dismissal day forever remains a day of shame in Australian politics. Whether you agreed with Whitlam or not; it's about whether you treasure parliamentary democracy or not. Kerr died as a despised twat: the very people who happily used him, were quick to cut him down when he had done the job.
Whitlam won 2 general elections in two years (the 2nd forced by the opposition) but Kerr dismissed him. Sworn (and paid) sentaors refused to vote on the budget. They should have been told to vote.
corpbs1 1 year ago
corrupt labor barstard
meakd 1 year ago
Kerr was a coward for failing inform Whitlam that he would sack him if supply wasn't obtained, because he feared Whitlam would rightly direct HM to dismiss him as GG. GGs must accept the advice of PMs who command a majority in the House. GGs can only use their reserve power if a PM fails or is unable to command the House's confidence.
Whitlam is correct in his contempt of Kerr.
brianclough 1 year ago
@brianclough
The Prime Minister holds that position because he/she can command the support of the HofR. The HofR can support a PM if it has the support of the country. Whitlam could have cleaned the political clocks of his (his own appointee) Kerr, Fraser, and any of his enemies if the ensuing election showed that he and his party had the country's support a few weeks after being sacked. He and they didn't.
baraxor 1 year ago
@baraxor Yes, I see your point, but the danger is that you end up in situations where opinion polls dictate who should govern, worse you get a govt that employs populist policies fearing their removal by the whims of popular opinion & the GG. That's why elections give the govt a mandate of 3-4 years to run and choose an election date when they feel they need a further mandate.
After GG appointed Fraser, the House objected in 3 votes, but he still dissolved the House & refused to see the Speaker
brianclough 1 year ago
may we say GOD save the queen because nothing will save labor or liberal at the next election they might as well sleep together as they continue to ignore workers rights GOD save us all from these politicians
luneco100 1 year ago
Fuck the CIA them and ASIO had everything to do with undermining him..cos he wanted the list of all operatives workiing in Australia...they warned him to back off =..he didnt so they had to get the CIA cocksucker John Kerr to sack him
ValukaX 1 year ago
Inflation actually reached 17% in 1975, created due to cost push inflationary pressures associated with rising production costs (Oil Crisis). But also the Whitlam government spent heaps of money which added to inflation, they spent the savings which liberal gained.
But the Whitlam period wasn't all divisive, it was actually a light of rapid political and social change, it was an ambition so high, but at the wrong time.
And yes there was political scandal some uneducated friends in government
melbon11 1 year ago
cmon guys, Kerr made the right decision- Whitlam was useless! Inflation increased 10% under his term, unemployment also increased. Money was wasted, and his Ministers had no experience or decent education
yaketysaks 1 year ago
@yaketysaks You may, or may not, know that there was actually a worldwide economic crisis at the time, the breakdown of Bretton-Woods and the gold standard, the oil crises and wars in the middle east. Many of his reforms are now beyond politics and neither party would think of touching them (Medicare, for example).
He wasn't a perfect Prime Minister, but he did many good things that hold this country in good stead.
disamjisa 1 year ago
A day of shame for the monarchy and the coalition. Always was. Always will be.
trevorx1960 1 year ago
@1CaptainAustralia1 The government is formed from the majority in the House of Representatives, not the Senate. The Bills were passed in the House of Reps, but the Senate blocked them to create a problem for the Labor Party. That doesnt mean that there is no confidence in the Government, there was actually a vote of no confidence in the Liberal-Country Coalition in the House of Reps, so what the Governer-General did cant really be justified on a basis of no confidence in the government.
twinkychick244 1 year ago
Thank you for all that you did for this country, Gough. You made it a much better place for all of us.
JmanofAus 1 year ago
If it weren;t for him i'd hat to even imagine what Australia would be like to today. Conservative and very liberal. Thanks Gough :)
cassieemaree 1 year ago
All the Governor General did is follow the procedure he had to, a majority of parliment blocking supply bills is basically just a vote of no confidence.
1CaptainAustralia1 1 year ago
@1CaptainAustralia1 Wrong. John Kerr had many other options he just chose to be an asshole and do what he did.
cassieemaree 1 year ago
@cassieemaree What, the Governor General should have abused his power and told parliament to pass the bills or something? He's just a rubber stamp, if he did much else he'd be interfering, it's not up to him to tell the majority of parliment what to do. The majority of opposition that blocks the bills/shows no confidence in the government becomes the majority that IS the government, simple as that.
1CaptainAustralia1 1 year ago
@1CaptainAustralia1 Read Gough's little classic "The Truth of The Matter" That should give you a heads up about how the supply issue should have been resolved.
SvendBosanvovski 1 year ago
labour, stand over tactics and mob communism
MON383 1 year ago
@MON383 Labor* If you're going to insult an entire group of people at least get it right.
InformationMinister 1 year ago
M.U.A... Mob of Ungrateful Assholes.... if it wasnt for us in the country you pricks wouldnt have jobs
MON383 1 year ago
Whitlam is the worst bloody Prime Minister we've ever had closely followed by Paul Keating and what do you know they both lasted a ridiculously short amount of time
davefach 1 year ago
@davefach You need to go back to school. Gough's legacy speak for itself, as some of the better informed contributors have pointed out. Repeating the same old mantra from those who obstructed and set out to detroy huis government is wearing thin. I put you to the challenge: identify one other PM whose government achieved more enduring reforms in a three year period. What was Howard's? The GST and WorkChoice? Fraser? Gough did more in 18 months than Menzies did in 18 years.
SvendBosanvovski 1 year ago
The Senate should he abolished full stop!@Sasquatch279
smegs05 1 year ago
The out of control crime you witness in Australian society today can be directly traced back to this traitor and his mafia pal Al Grassby.....it is because of them that Islam and its barbaric lifestyle are in Australia today.
MrAntiFarLeft 1 year ago
Gough Whitlam was a hero of Australian history
zing713amw 1 year ago
We love you Gough! Still the greatest and most visionary Prime Minister in Australia's history (not saying that much really). We need more like him now...
Tuathalful 1 year ago
the biggest and most accomplished, and most educated politician Australia has ever had,
lunafringe10 1 year ago
What a tank!
PeterEQUALSawesome 2 years ago
And the updates to the system by Hawke during his tenure were an ineviatable consequence of a system that was well and truely open to abuse. Why is it do you think that you here about people who have been a uni for years and never completed anything or on the flip side HAVE completed a degree and yet have never gained any relevent or worthwhile employment...uni for many people is a waste of time...years spent at great expense to the taxpayer so they can drink beer and smoke pot.
danielmy08 2 years ago
Further to this point also is that there is a disproportionate number of people from this background who go through our courts for a wide range of other offences ranging from common and violent assault, kidnapping & extortion through to fraud of all dimensions, car rebirthing aswell as drug dealing & distribution. Note the key word being "disproportionate" - that being a much higher rate than that for white australians. Many people from these countries have no respect for the law.
danielmy08 2 years ago
and finally Whitlam attempted to acquire funds for his policy ventures through dodgy sources in the middle east with no disclosure to parliament....these too are facts!
danielmy08 2 years ago
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maddierat 2 years ago
He did this, he did that he was soooo wonderful......HE GOT FIRED! HAHAHAHAHA!
nowyouremine 2 years ago
Fired and then beaten by the biggest margin in Australian electoral history!
personaliteh 2 years ago
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN OF AUSTRALIA!
BelfastCityHall 2 years ago
@Belfast: Queen of Australia?
venuecam 2 years ago
greatest day in australia history
deNorbury 2 years ago 2
Ha didn't know this happens but then again I was born in 91 =). hope Kevin Rudd does more. I like the fact that he I'd building a Fibre Network but why doesn't he reveiw all are laws and stuff and then build a HSR Network like from Cairns to Melbourne etc
TravvyG 2 years ago
buskern, dasne de indiotta
cosmojordan 2 years ago
Did gough at least get to keep the brand new white Valiant Regal.
moparbros 2 years ago
Whitlam dragged Australia screaming and kicking out of the 1920's... He slapped Australia with a wet towel when it needed to be slapped.
spacka99 2 years ago
errrr 1920s? What at the age of 15?
bendalazzi 2 years ago
my point was: In terms of foreign policy/the economy/arts and culture/infra structure etc, Whitlam modernised a country which had stagnated under 30 odd years of anal retentive conservatives.
spacka99 2 years ago
what the hell are you on about? hes saying in the 1970's Australia was still living in the past. Whitlams reforms then modernised the country.
What do you mean at age 15....
rattis1 2 years ago 8
spacka99 said Whitlam dragged Australia out of the 1920s yudda yudda. The way the comment is worded implies that Whitlam was in power in the 1920s hence dragging us out of the 1920s which would have made him 15. spacka99 later clarified so no need for further comment.
bendalazzi 2 years ago
Whitlam destroyed the country - changed it from being lucky to being stuffed.
personaliteh 2 years ago
No dude, He modernised our social lives. He did what was required at the time.
rattis1 2 years ago
Whitlam was a criminal and a liar. The ugliness of his self serving character is rivalled on by the ugliness of that dinosaur he is married to. A national disgrace who is remembered by most of Australia as just that!
danielmy08 2 years ago
Pulled Australian troops out of Vietnam, introduced free tertiary education, put finishing touches on the abolition of the White Australia Policy, universal healthcare - medibank. These are facts. Maybe you should provide some to back up your comments.
geekaboy 2 years ago 16
The US had begun troop withdrawal in 1969 so was ineviatable that Oz would soon follow, we have NEVER had "free" tertiary education in this country - this is a myth...most universities charge fees of some sort and you still have to repay through HECS,and it's medicare not medibank you fool! And what you see around Australia today is the result of Whitlam's ending of white oz policy...ethnic crime of every dimension, Asian & lebanese organised crime, ethnic ghettos across most of our cities etc
danielmy08 2 years ago
Sorry, pulled troops out of Vietnam... and ended conscription. Between 1972 and 1989 when HECS was introduced, tuition fees for teriary institutions for Australian nationals were NIL. When the Whitlam Govt. introduced the universal healthcare scheme it was Medibank. Medicare was the updated scheme introduced by the Hawke Govt. Organised crime is not limited to Asians and Lebanese, and in Australia, a very good early example of this was the Rum Corps - vast majority white caucasian.
geekaboy 2 years ago
Wow...you really are a left wing sod to try and compare something from way back in the annals of history (ie Rum Corps) to the scourge of illicit drugs on modern society in Australia, control of which is mostly in the hands of Lebanese & Asian organised crime groups. If ethnic related crime is not such an issue than why are there special divisions across the various state police units (ie middle eastern/asian crime squads) to deal with the ever growing problem?? You left wingers live in denial!
danielmy08 2 years ago
@danielmy08 nice one, "medicare not medibank." don't call someone a fool then get your facts wrong, might wanna look that one up and re-post that reply
zing713amw 1 year ago
@zing713amw why wouldn't I call you a fool? You talk crap. He was the only PM to ever be dismissed I think that speaks for itself...you are just living in denial.
danielmy08 1 year ago
@danielmy08 he was dismissed by a moron governor general who went behind his back to stich him up, says more about john kerr than it ever will about gough whitlam, Whitlam's legacy will live forever, introducing medicare, free uni at a time of economic turmoil, abolishing white australia, introducing and encouraging a multicultural australia, Equalt rights for woman (equal pay in the workplace). John kerr will be remembered as the twofaced queen suckhole that turfed out australia's best ever PM.
raff23 1 year ago
@raff23 Kerr was a cur.
TheJasenator 1 year ago
@TheJasenator
I concur :p
supercrevolution 1 year ago
@geekaboy
FACT ....... LIBERALS DESTROYED LABOR IN THE NEXT ELECTION!!!! GOUGH WAS INCOMPETENT AND THE AUSTRALIAN VOTERS SAW HIM FOR WHAT HE WAS ...... A WORTHLESS DEAD WEIGHT.
Coalition - 91
ALP - 36
PS. In September 1974, Whitlam met with Indonesian President, Suharto, in Indonesia and indicated that he would support Indonesia if it annexed East Timor. GO HUMAN RIGHTS!!!!
LABORISTOXIC 11 months ago
Damn right he was incompetent. Borrowed money from saddam's Baath party, also ruined our economy. thank God he was dismissed. Only a retard would actually this jerk is great
yourgasm 9 months ago
@yourgasm you gotta spend money to make money.
h44512 7 months ago
@h44512 yeah as irresponsible as Whitlam. Yeah thats great work. Woo hoo well Gough.
yourgasm 7 months ago
@yourgasm how else do you make money? enlighten me.
h44512 7 months ago
@h44512 Good economic management. Look it up. Unlike Whitlam who had to borrow from Saddam's party. What an embaressment
yourgasm 7 months ago
@yourgasm if he had cut back on spending and not borrowed money, you'd be whinging just the same, but for different reasons. he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
h44512 7 months ago
@h44512 Nope wrong again. His big govt spending is what is what was wrong with Australia. Let's face it despite all the angry protesters he got his ass handed to him in the 75 & 77 elections. He got destroyed & thats bc ppl realised how bad he was for Australia. A debt driven govt just like the Gillard govt
yourgasm 7 months ago
@yourgasm would you rather be in debt that we can easily pay back within a few years or be stuck in a recession for the next 5-10 years?
h44512 7 months ago
@h44512 Yeah right, at the same time soaring inflation rate 14.4%,budget deficit at 1.8 GDP,govt spending at a staggering 46% over 2 yrs. Its economic incompetence. Facts are facts,the Australian ppl saw this & punished Whitlam in 75. What was it again? Thats right it was biggest election defeat in political history
yourgasm 7 months ago
@yourgasm Even Paul Keating gave Whitlam a good bashing:'In terms of the Labor agenda this government has left every other Labor government bare arsed. No other government even gets within cooee of it. We have a cabinet which has a degree of economic sophistication which puts the Whitlam government into the cavemen class in economic terms' LOL! 'Whitlam: “That was a good speech.You should go back comrade, and get yourself an honours degree.”Keating: “What for ? Then I’d be like you.” LMAO!
yourgasm 7 months ago
@yourgasm gough whitlam was not booted out as a result of an election.. he was dismissed. the majority of the population weren't happy about it, because look what he did for our country. medicare, womens rights, benefits for indigenous australians, multiculturalism. he made this place fucking awesome.
h44512 7 months ago
@h44512 Wrong, he was dismissed. An election was called,he got thrashed and again in 77.There were ppl who were unhappy about his dismissal but when the election came,the Aust ppl responded. Whitlam did not make Aust awesome,he made our country worse by his radical policies which fucked our economy up.
yourgasm 7 months ago
@yourgasm he was not re-elected as a result of menzies pathetic fear of communism, which scared the country. our economy is better than most in the world.
h44512 7 months ago
@h44512 Umm no, Menzies was way gone. Fraser called an election & won by a long shot. Had nothing to do at all with the fear of communism. Our economy is better than the rest of the world thanks to passed leaders in this country. Except for Whitlam. Gotta love Keating's jab. “What for ? Then I’d be like you.”
yourgasm 7 months ago
@yourgasm menzies himself may have been way gone, but when a country has been drilled with the fact that communism is awful and SENT TO WAR because of it, the majority of the stayed fearful. and who gives a fuck about keating. do you use medicare? do you enjoy not being left on the streets to die? this man did great things for our country.
h44512 7 months ago
@h44512 Menzies in the past did the right thing with the Soviet Spy where now new reports from ASIO have confirmed that what Menzies said about this was quite evident. AND Whitlam was voted out not bc of the communist threat,get your facts right. He was voted out bc the ppl realised how bad he was at his job. He introduced radical reforms that cost us dearly, fair enough you want to bring Medibank in. But he made it radical,Hawke/Keating modified so we won't go into debt.
yourgasm 7 months ago
Face it,Whitlam sucked,got his ass kicked at 2 elections & resigned. I don't like Keating myself but at least knew the importance of economic reform. Hawke & Keating did more for this country than Whitlam. Here's a reflection of 1975 fed election, Liberals gained 30 seats,Labor lost 30,suffered a 7.40.
yourgasm 7 months ago
@yourgasm he didn't resign, he was sacked. FORCED out. we're never going to come to a conclusion on this. i don't think he sucked, you did. the end.
h44512 7 months ago
@h44512 wrong, he got dismissed. An election was called,he got beaten. Voted out. Its not that I think he sucked,its the majority of Australians who thought he sucked
yourgasm 7 months ago
@LABORISTOXIC Damn right, that election was bloody funny seeing the Libearls completely destroy Labor into pieces. Too bad Fraser soldout the Liberals though. And you know what Laboristoxic,the ALP love to pinpoint the Liberals as being liars,corrupt but they don't say a thing about their beloved Whitlam & his closeness to Suharto. Watch Balibo
yourgasm 7 months ago
@danielmy08 Gough was our greatest reformer. The legacy of his ministry endures. There is too much to traverse here, but what needs to be appreciated is that his vision was resisted by those who would not accept that the people wanted the change he promised after 23 years of conservative rule. That is why he won in 1972 and 1974. The so called loans scandal was a typical Murdoch beat up. We have no problem sourcing loans from the Arab Emirates, the Saudi's and Dubai today, now do we?
SvendBosanvovski 1 year ago
hang on...that comment was made about a year ago...
anyway....
KangarooKid4 2 years ago
Kev 07 is fucking our country the same way right now.all this parasite wants every day is his 30sec smiling grab on the nightly news, economic conservative?NO , labor commy useless scum? YES
camerondavo 2 years ago
oh k
burhan1707 2 years ago
looks like it was recorded on a mobile phone haha
saltycandy 2 years ago 2
Our beautiful democracy working perfectly!
chapesco 2 years ago
Sour grapes, the duty of the government is to get its bills through parliament and Whitlam's couldn't so the Governor-General called an election to ensure that government went on. Whitlam could have won that election but he didnt and probably knew he wasnt going to. The problem is the Australian Constitution has no Parliament Act, the same problem happened in the UK just before WW1 after the Parliament Act the upper house can no longer block the budget.
DaveHorse1 3 years ago
GG called a double dissoulution. He cannot just call for a single house to election.
pattywaffle 3 years ago
not true under the constitution only the prime minister can call for a double dissolution which is why when Whitlam was sacked Fraser was appointed caretaker PM so that an election could be called
irishgodfatherchris 2 years ago
You know personally when I think of it, what exactly was the point of the liberal senate stopping the supply of money? When you consider the fact of the Australian economy at the time, wouldn't Fraser still have won the next election with the same campaign?
sogo9 3 years ago
the liberals believed that they had moral justification for blocking supply because a) the economy was being severely neglected and they were scared of the state it would be in in 2 years b) the loans scandal and c) a by-election where labor lost by a landslide
liber8me 3 years ago 2
COMMY SCUM
camerondavo 3 years ago
Whitlam sucked, Fraser ruled.
Nothing else to say.
SenhorBundy 3 years ago
Oh for God's sake....
KangarooKid4 2 years ago
Goddamn commie bastard!
SenhorBundy 2 years ago
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You forgot Socialist Commie Bastard.
GW was in it for himself. and lied, cheated, and made deals with the 'devil' to get what he wanted. Shame on you naive fuckers that press the thumbs down button...
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ok, ok you win.
allanxxx99 2 years ago
if he was in it for himself, why did he make university education free?
Nobguy1000 2 years ago 2
No such thing as free education.
personaliteh 2 years ago
Many beleive the CIA was involved in the conspiracy but probably MI6 and Australian intelligence as well. Because the Queen of England and the city of london banking cabal which run the US Govt and the Australian Govt. When their puppet prime ministers don't behave the way they expect them to. You could get bumped off Kennedy style. I suspect PM Gough Whitlam knew exactly what was going on and that the higher powers had acted. Hence his famous statement :-
markjayaweera 3 years ago
"God Save the Queen
Because nothing will save the Gov General."
So he had no choice either he resigns or he gets a bullet kennedy style assassination
under orders from that top Global Eliteist.
Queen of England out of the City of London banking cabal. Anyway I always have respect for any leader that goes against the global powers that be at the top of the Pyramid global power structure. That is why Gough Whitlam will have my highest respect. All PM's since have been puppets even Keating.
markjayaweera 3 years ago
What proof to you have of what you claim to be the global elite? Damn conspiracy theorists...
SupermarketsRevil 2 years ago
One Angry Bogan
timcmaeder 3 years ago
RUDD'S A DUDD
ruddsadudd 3 years ago
Labour has big worries in concerning the world economy and how they will have to deal with very angry Australians when things fall apart.
As for Pete Costello, I can see why he didn't want the Federal Lib leadership, smart man and smart move!
MRMILO57 3 years ago
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Theres a fuckhead.....right there, produced by nothing other then the Labor Party....massive debt thats to him!!
swanie180 3 years ago
There must have been good reason why the Australian Federal Government was sacked and forced out of governence in 1975.
It still hurts the Australian Labour Party, so to me that is good!
As for multiculturalism, I would prefer if all immigrants were better educated about Australia and have crimminals checks before they are aloud in the country to live permanently.
MRMILO57 3 years ago
i prefer if they didnt live in aus all together thing is most of these immigrants leave there country because of wars or bad politics..so they come to australia and all they do is whinge and complain about our politics i think they should all just piss off back to where they came from if they love our country so much then they should respect our rules and way of life not change it 2 suit them they wont learn about australia cause were turning it into every part of the world..its down right wrong
GreendragonDMX1 3 years ago 5
GreendragonDMX1 ...totaly agree with you.
MRMILO57 3 years ago
If you did some research on the topic MRMIL057 you would discover that the reason that they were removed from power was due to a stop of supply (money) by the coalition controlled senate, forcing the governor general to take action.
The action he should have taken was to bring both sides into mediation talks, but instead due to many factors including CIA pressure (well documented) he removed the government and install the opposition as a caretaker government.
A disgrace to Australian Politics
geordieb1 3 years ago
apparently the governor-general did try mediation talks and failed. still, there's something extremely wrong about a man dismissing the PM that all of australia voted for.
yllidiah 3 years ago
Pathetic! They were dismissed by a useless drunk, and it doesn't hurt the labor party, with todays changing views on socialism it gains more support for the labor party!
InformationMinister 3 years ago
"As for multiculturalism, I would prefer if all immigrants were better educated about Australia and have crimminals checks before they are aloud in the country to live permanently."
Agreed.
iTitanium 3 years ago 3
Whitlam was right to abolish the White australia poicy
DinoProAustralia 3 years ago 4
what so all those bloody lebs and iraqi's and japs and chinks can come into our bloody country and change all our bloody rules to suit there stupid relgion..those bloody muslism are aloud to wear there stupid tea towels when going for photo ID all because they managed to change our rules!! yet we go over there country we are expected to respect theres...load of absolute shit!!..i say bring back the White australian policy and any1 who isnt a citizen get deported and can try again fuck em
GreendragonDMX1 3 years ago
"Captain Cook was the very first queue jumper, it was immigrant labour that made Australia plumper, enough is enough, whities go back, get stuffed, don't want to live in England, well that F**cking tough!" Lyrics from "77%" by The Herd. I don't normally resort to personal attacks, but you are clearly a racist, ignorant, uneducated bigot! You are entitled to your opinion, as long as it is founded on something more than right wing facist nazi rhetoric!
geordieb1 3 years ago
Australia as a nation state didn't exist in 1777. Plus, he didn't even settle in Australia. That was done in 1788. So who ever wrote that song has no idea of Australian history. But any way. there was no queue to speak of in 1788. Plus the so called "Aboriginal governments" were a joke. They weren't recognized by any government any where in the world. So, they had no authority.
supremerat 3 years ago
supremerat, the song is representative of the fact that we all came from somewhere else (england or another country) to a country already occupied by a nation of people, (the Kulan nation). It is also a reference to the Howard Government's treatment of Asylum Seekers as Queue jumpers. Our national anthem states "for those who've come across the seas, we've boundless plains to share. I suppose you would support Hitler and the Nazi's, because they saw the Jews as an inferior group of people?
geordieb1 3 years ago
No, I'm a bit of a Marxist and a bit of every thing else.
supremerat 3 years ago
Thats a bit racist wouldn't you say. you just have to respect other peoples culture and belifes..
"yet we go over there country we are expected to respect theres...load of absolute shit!!..i say bring back the White australian policy"
Firstly This is Australia not "Their country" its different for obvious reasons thats what makes this Country such a good one. and also the white Australia Policy was a racist epic fail, if it was still in place i proberly wouldnt be here..
iTitanium 3 years ago
White Australia was an Economic Policy, designed to create a state of full employment. Which is one of the Requirements of the Reserve Bank. It was an instrumental policy in the development of the nation which, did not discriminate but required immigrants to know an European Language.
TheRealMessage764 3 years ago
mate it was discriminatory. how would you feel that if you were a qualified asian who spoke english perfectly and they asked you to take a dictation test in portuguese?
they could ask you to do it in any european language. how many australians would there have been if they had been as harsh on asians as they were on europeans?
liber8me 3 years ago 2
agreed. of course there has to be some constraints on immigration but that dictation test was a load of bullshit because not even europeans would have passed it. a qaulified asian could have tried to come to australia, stated how he was an engineer or something and then said he was fluent in japanese, english, french and german and the tester could have just said "oh thats great, your dictation test is going to be in greek", or italian or any other language.
liber8me 3 years ago
He didn't, it was done in 1968
supremerat 3 years ago
please reference your replies to a specific post for the benefit of the conversation! Cheers!
geordieb1 3 years ago 2
oh shut the fuck up everybody
xchampagnex 3 years ago
lol agreed
TBVVG 3 years ago
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Whitlam deserved the sack. He abolished the White Australia Policy, brought in a multiculturalist policy and created a welfare dependant society.
Worst Prime Minister this great country of ours has ever seen.
gdaymate85 3 years ago
He also created equal rights for women (your mother or sister or wife/girlfriend), created a universal health care system (protecting you, your family and friend's health), Introduced a one vote one value system that meant that all Australian's were given an equal voice in Australian Politics, provided senate representation to the citizens of the ACT and NT, and much more. Do the research!
Are you really of the belief that you have more ownership of this country as (i assume) an anglo?
geordieb1 3 years ago
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He was right to abolish the white Australia policy but he was WRONG very WRONG to bring in multiculturalism
Steven2690 3 years ago
. . . You do realise multiculturalism has been around - In Aust hist - before the 70's right?
pattywaffle 3 years ago
I'd rather have imigrants than you in this country you racist bastard. Shame on you.
symons3569 2 years ago 2
You are basically criticising and then supporting the same thing in one sentence.
SupermarketsRevil 2 years ago
it looks like it was recored on a mobile phone haha
MarvTheGiant 3 years ago
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so arrogant
liber8me 3 years ago
Although I wasn't born when Whitlam was PM, I owe a life debt to this great Prime Minister - he destroyed the racist White Australia Policy and started multiculturalism. My parents came to Australia during the Whitlam years...I'm proud to be part of Australia thanks to this guy...yet the dismissal is a problem.
youngbow2000 3 years ago 10
@youngbow2000 Well, you had the Columbo plan under Menzies, who brought in Malayan students. In fact it was Holt who ended racism. Al Grassby, as a minister, was a grub. If Australia is racist...just go home!
weskittun 1 year ago
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When will Gough Whitlam just die. He is nothing but a cancer on Australian society.
AustralianMonarchist 3 years ago
Australian+society=oxymoron. There is few Australian aristocrats
Finnymac84 3 years ago
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wheazy sleazy whitlam
newsnational 4 years ago
Why would Rex Connor trust a man like Khemlani?
I don't mind Gough by the way, my post shall be found a few pages back.
Conrad4President 4 years ago
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Malcolm Fraser whooped this cunt Whitlam!
AustralianMonarchist 4 years ago
Abolished capital punishment, ended conscription, freed concientious objectors, set the wheels in motion for indigenous land rights, established the schools commision, abolished the last remains of white Australia policy, I've never voted labor in my life but if I could have I would have voted for him.
cleaverwielder 4 years ago 15
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getting rid of the capital punishment was a mistake because there are some people who should be executed sure hangings are not the must humane way to execute some one but when some one commits a really evil crime like mass murder genocide and crimes like that there is only one punishment and that is death
wiliammckenzie 4 years ago
Where do you draw the line? At what point is it enough to kill someone? 1 death? 10? 100? What does an extra body do to solve the crime? How does stooping to the level of the criminal and killing set an example for society?
akeaneau 4 years ago 2
What does the death penalty accomplish? It is useless, inhumane, and a complete hypocrisy. Where is the sense in punishing someone by committing the same crime that the guilty committed? It's murder regardless of how you perceive it.
xXPinkGoddessXx 4 years ago 2
well let me say this one word PAEDOPHILES for example the guy who kidnapped and raped 3 kids in a motel room for 3 days sentenced to 14 years in 1989 released in 2003 arrested afew years later for molesting 2 more little girls just 4 and 5 years old now the question remains would he of been able to molest those little girls if the courts been able to put him to death i dont think i need to answer that but i will end with say one name martin bryant and a famous known killer the backpacker killer.
wiliammckenzie 4 years ago
If he was placed in a high security prison, he wouldn't have been able to rape anyone.
xXPinkGoddessXx 4 years ago
yeah well my point is that he was released and if there alive then there is always a chance that they will re-offend but if there dead well dead people cant commit crime but at the end of the day it is the means to an end
wiliammckenzie 4 years ago
Locked up people can't commit crimes either.
xXPinkGoddessXx 4 years ago
but they can if you release them and if a sicko like dennis ferguson can get out then so can some one like "martin bryant" just because they say life does not mean they will be in jail for life
wiliammckenzie 4 years ago
I agree they shouldn't ever be given parole, but the life sentence is a far better alternative than the death sentence.
xXPinkGoddessXx 4 years ago
Look you are welcome to your own views on the death penalty and I respect your right to them but for me, I've allways been taught that God does not look kindly on malice and really, taking someones life when society would be just as safe with them spending eternity in supermax is malicious.
cleaverwielder 3 years ago
even tho im an atheist i do agree with u about executions.
an execution is a killing in revenge
liber8me 3 years ago
So, better then paying 100 thousand dollars a year for some rapist to live in a gaol (jail).
supremerat 3 years ago
Well...you should vote labor then! great comment!
KangarooKid4 2 years ago
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thank god he is gone. He stuffed the country
151607 4 years ago
get fucked.
commiepartyofwarwick 4 years ago
Could someone please post Mal Pal Fraser sputtering that he was going to catch Gough Whitlam with his pants down!!!
brunon44 4 years ago 2
Bring back Gough!!!!
EsfahanKellie 4 years ago 4
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wanker!!