Latest posts tagged with #GoughWhitlam on Bluesky
'The Day Australia's Prime Minister was fired' Navigating Tragedy, Australia’s Not Immune After The Bondi Shooting.
Making Sense of Politics Podcast w @kcar.me & @nancygeorges.bsky.social
Full ep youtu.be/BxwjSDiKJNE apple: apple.co/4krATDe spotify bit.ly/4kvS6et #auspol #GoughWhitlam #ItsTime
He isn't a shoelace on #Keating or #Hawke & he isn't even in the same city as #GoughWhitlam when it comes to diplomacy & negotiations
Still better than every previous Liberal leader since Fraser where even Turnbull was gutless till he retired
I'm not diplomatic when something like war is concerned
Different times but Gough wouldn't even eat with them
But then #GoughWhitlam had morales & chose to put Australia first
Where as #Albanese is looking for the easy way to get re-elected by putting himself first & Australia last
#Albanese_ProtectingBillionaires
#AusPol2025 #Media #SpewsCorpse
A picture showing the covers of six books regarding the life and government of former Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam.
I believe my Gough Whitlam reading list is somewhat complete. Time to settle down with a wee dram and have a good read 📚🥃😊
(PS: I also have "The Dismissal" by Kelly & Bramston as well as John Kerr's "Matters for Judgement")
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#OzSky
#AusHistory
#GoughWhitlam
#WhitlamGovernment
#TheDismissal
@albomp.bsky.social is & always will be the #OrangeFelons #JellyBaby
If only we could resurrect #GoughWhitlam he would know how to deal with the #Felon in the #ShitHouse
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Australia descended from era when #GoughWhitlam declared we should not tax acquisition of skills to today when we make profit from #education that is supported by all parties.
How did Australian #universities go from free education to $50,000 arts degrees in 50 years? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
The dismissal of an elected Australian Government has only happened once. 50 years ago Sir John Kerr sensationally sacked PM Gough Whitlam. Greg Jennett looks at the legacy of the historic event and how it shaped democracy.
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The Whitlam experiment ended abruptly, but its vision endures: that a middle power could stand on its own feet, speak with its own voice and act according to its own conscience. #auspol #theDismissal #GoughWhitlam #Kerr
I consider the #ALP, especially under @albomp.bsky.social, to be a #rightwing party with little in common with the #Labor of #GoughWhitlam. For left-wing voters like me, that means first-preferencing #Greens, #Independents or other minor left parties, with ALP marginally above #LNP & other crazies.
“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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Former Prime Minister Paul Keating on the dismissal youtu.be/4GHUTo1e6TI?... via @YouTube #goughwhitlam
🚨 50 yrs after the dismissal of Gough Whitlam: when he very publicly called the pro-Israel lobby’s influence “blackmail” in 1973. Today Gaza shows the same pattern.
👇 Link in first reply for deep dive.
#GoughWhitlam #TheDismissal #YomKippur1973 #LobbyPower #Gaza #Auspol #Israellobby
Apart from a few big or at least significant successes, like creating #Medicare and "legally" ending discrimination against First Nations Australians, fact is, #GoughWhitlam & his government was a SHAMBLES.
If his "progressive politics" equaled "good governance", #JohnKerr wouldn't have sacked him.
Picture the scene on the crowded steps of Old Parliament House in Canberra on that historic day in 1975. Fittingly, I'm standing to Gough's left, my fist raised in solidarity with the sacked Labor government. ✊ #shortstory #thedismissal #goughwhitlam www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/shor...
"Crusted off commie" #Albanese is airbrushing the "mostly legitimate grounds" Governor General #JohnKerr had to dismiss #GoughWhitlam and his government by painting it as a "partisan ambush" that was rooted in "Menzies era suffocating conservatism".
All in all Whitlam was a complete and utter F-up.
From #AUKUS to government secrecy, politics to policy, #AnthonyAlbanese is closer to Liberal PM #ScottMorrison than #GoughWhitlam
Albanese won office on a risk-free small-target strategy marked by timidity and hesitancy on all fronts. #Auspol
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This is interesting.
The Dismissal, the role of the CIA, MI6 and Austral Americans johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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Fine piece by @paulbongiorno.bsky.social on sacking of #GoughWhitlam as PM 50 years ago. Drunken Governor General combined with power hungry Malcolm Fraser to flout #Constitution.
Australian coup: Reflect on Whitlam dismissal www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 11 1975, the day Australia's fragile facade of "parliamentary democracy" was exposed for what it really is. #australia #auspol #dismissal1975 #coup #goughwhitlam #kerrscur #treason #UK #USA #CIA #Murdoch www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
From Mr M History on Instagram and YouTube: New podcast coming tonight that breaks down #Israel & #Whitlam.
#AUSPOL #GoughWhitlam #Zionism #GolanHeights #Syria #Egypt #GreaterIsrael #Blackmail #YomKippirWar #History #Resolution242 #LaurenceMcintyre #SinaiPennisula #Colonialism
Lest we forget the day democracy was killed off in Australia... #australia #auspol #CIA #USA #pinegap #UK #goughwhitlam #coup independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Loving I was actually there” so glad these people could add their oral history of the #dismissal #GoughWhitlam.
Some showed their true colours-despicable #LNP
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List of all the good thing achieved in such a short time ( & questionable role of monarchy)
“It should never have happened” #auspol
#GoughWhitlam had a few "successes" - namely being the architect of #Medicare, achieving more fairness for women in the workforce (pay parity) and ending discrimination against First Nations Australians.
But overall, his short lived government was one BIG FAILURE.
A lemon without even any juice.
Times like this I wish #GoughWhitlam was still Prime Minister & then we wouldn't be in this position
China is a better friend & trading partner than #Felon47's USA
But thats just my dream @albomp.bsky.social is Trumps #JellyBaby
#AusPol
One of the greatest prime ministers in Australia’s history.
The definition of belligerence at its best. A defiant humanitarian who never ever gave up the fight for independence and equality for all ❤️🕊️
#GoughWhitlam
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