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@MarkAsser Many years ago, there was talk of Australia becoming a republic, and one of the models proposed had a president with very little power. At the time, I thought it was a bad idea, not much different to our current arrangement of Governor General who, I thought was "Just a figurehead". Oh, I was naïve...
Later, I learned about Governor General John Kerr, and The Dismissal of Gough Whitlam. And, how that led to the undemocratic handover to Malcolm Fraser, and to many years of political Dark Ages that followed — that was the "normal" when I was a kid growing-up. John Kerr's abuse of power reshaped politics and governance in Australia for many Gen X people and all following generations.
The lesson history teaches us from political skullduggery in 1970s Australia is: you don't want a Governor General going rogue and breaking our system of Democracy.
You _do_ want your ultimate leader to be just a figurehead.
You want your nation's leaders to know their station and act accordingly, which is not to rule the people, but to serve the people.#AusPol #JohnKerr #GoughWhitlam #MalcolmFraser #MaintainYourRage
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@MarkAsser Many years ago, there was talk of Australia becoming a republic, and one of the models proposed had a president with very little power. At the time, I thought it was a bad idea, not much different to our current arrangement of Governor General who, I thought was "Just a figurehead". Oh, I was naïve...
Later, I learned about Governor General John Kerr, and The Dismissal of Gough Whitlam. And, how that led to the undemocratic handover to Malcolm Fraser, and to many years of political Dark Ages that followed — that was the "normal" when I was a kid growing-up. John Kerr's abuse of power reshaped politics and governance in Australia for many Gen X people and all following generations.
The lesson history teaches us from political skullduggery in 1970s Australia is: you don't want a Governor General going rogue and breaking our system of Democracy.
You _do_ want your ultimate leader to be just a figurehead.
You want your nation's leaders to know their station and act accordingly, which is not to rule the people, but to serve the people.#AusPol #JohnKerr #GoughWhitlam #MalcolmFraser #MaintainYourRage
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@MarkAsser Many years ago, there was talk of Australia becoming a republic, and one of the models proposed had a president with very little power. At the time, I thought it was a bad idea, not much different to our current arrangement of Governor General who, I thought was "Just a figurehead". Oh, I was naïve...
Later, I learned about Governor General John Kerr, and The Dismissal of Gough Whitlam. And, how that led to the undemocratic handover to Malcolm Fraser, and to many years of political Dark Ages that followed — that was the "normal" when I was a kid growing-up. John Kerr's abuse of power reshaped politics and governance in Australia for many Gen X people and all following generations.
The lesson history teaches us from political skullduggery in 1970s Australia is: you don't want a Governor General going rogue and breaking our system of Democracy.
You _do_ want your ultimate leader to be just a figurehead.
You want your nation's leaders to know their station and act accordingly, which is not to rule the people, but to serve the people.#AusPol #JohnKerr #GoughWhitlam #MalcolmFraser #MaintainYourRage
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@MarkAsser Many years ago, there was talk of Australia becoming a republic, and one of the models proposed had a president with very little power. At the time, I thought it was a bad idea, not much different to our current arrangement of Governor General who, I thought was "Just a figurehead". Oh, I was naïve...
Later, I learned about Governor General John Kerr, and The Dismissal of Gough Whitlam. And, how that led to the undemocratic handover to Malcolm Fraser, and to many years of political Dark Ages that followed — that was the "normal" when I was a kid growing-up. John Kerr's abuse of power reshaped politics and governance in Australia for many Gen X people and all following generations.
The lesson history teaches us from political skullduggery in 1970s Australia is: you don't want a Governor General going rogue and breaking our system of Democracy.
You _do_ want your ultimate leader to be just a figurehead.
You want your nation's leaders to know their station and act accordingly, which is not to rule the people, but to serve the people.#AusPol #JohnKerr #GoughWhitlam #MalcolmFraser #MaintainYourRage
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@MarkAsser Many years ago, there was talk of Australia becoming a republic, and one of the models proposed had a president with very little power. At the time, I thought it was a bad idea, not much different to our current arrangement of Governor General who, I thought was "Just a figurehead". Oh, I was naïve...
Later, I learned about Governor General John Kerr, and The Dismissal of Gough Whitlam. And, how that led to the undemocratic handover to Malcolm Fraser, and to many years of political Dark Ages that followed — that was the "normal" when I was a kid growing-up. John Kerr's abuse of power reshaped politics and governance in Australia for many Gen X people and all following generations.
The lesson history teaches us from political skullduggery in 1970s Australia is: you don't want a Governor General going rogue and breaking our system of Democracy.
You _do_ want your ultimate leader to be just a figurehead.
You want your nation's leaders to know their station and act accordingly, which is not to rule the people, but to serve the people.#AusPol #JohnKerr #GoughWhitlam #MalcolmFraser #MaintainYourRage
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@InsurgoFormica @Qldaah
This'd be the RWNJ ideology that had former Liberal Prime Minister #MalcolmFraser disassociate himself from the #LiberalsAU.Stay true #PeterDutton, #MichaelaCash and all #CPAC visionaries.
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@InsurgoFormica @Qldaah
This'd be the RWNJ ideology that had former Liberal Prime Minister #MalcolmFraser disassociate himself from the #LiberalsAU.Stay true #PeterDutton, #MichaelaCash and all #CPAC visionaries.
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@InsurgoFormica @Qldaah
This'd be the RWNJ ideology that had former Liberal Prime Minister #MalcolmFraser disassociate himself from the #LiberalsAU.Stay true #PeterDutton, #MichaelaCash and all #CPAC visionaries.
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@InsurgoFormica @Qldaah
This'd be the RWNJ ideology that had former Liberal Prime Minister #MalcolmFraser disassociate himself from the #LiberalsAU.Stay true #PeterDutton, #MichaelaCash and all #CPAC visionaries.
For the good of the nation. -
@InsurgoFormica @Qldaah
This'd be the RWNJ ideology that had former Liberal Prime Minister #MalcolmFraser disassociate himself from the #LiberalsAU.Stay true #PeterDutton, #MichaelaCash and all #CPAC visionaries.
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"I don’t necessarily see Idi Amin as an analogue for Donald Trump or any other of the many demagogues who now inflict themselves on our public stage. I do think, though, that in Amin’s successful efforts to renovate Ugandans’ sense of place and time, in his use of new media to shape people’s apprehensions of where they stood in history, and in his efforts to instrumentalise people’s resentment against racial and ethnic outsiders, there are lessons for us about how demagoguery works in our own place and time."
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I was at the August 1976 anti-Fraser demo at Monash. Since then I've often looked at photos of the event, but today I saw a photo which I'm pretty sure included me! It's impossible to be certain, but several contemporaries have agreed its me. BTW, he was barricaded into a toilet. They claim it was an engineer's office, but also say they had to squeeze him out of a small window. An engineer with only a window that small in his office?
#Fraser #MalcolmFraser #Monash #MonashUniversity #Protest #WhitlamDismissal #WeWantGough
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I was at the August 1976 anti-Fraser demo at Monash. Since then I've often looked at photos of the event, but today I saw a photo which I'm pretty sure included me! It's impossible to be certain, but several contemporaries have agreed its me. BTW, he was barricaded into a toilet. They claim it was an engineer's office, but also say they had to squeeze him out of a small window. An engineer with only a window that small in his office?
#Fraser #MalcolmFraser #Monash #MonashUniversity #Protest #WhitlamDismissal #WeWantGough
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I was at the August 1976 anti-Fraser demo at Monash. Since then I've often looked at photos of the event, but today I saw a photo which I'm pretty sure included me! It's impossible to be certain, but several contemporaries have agreed its me. BTW, he was barricaded into a toilet. They claim it was an engineer's office, but also say they had to squeeze him out of a small window. An engineer with only a window that small in his office?
#Fraser #MalcolmFraser #Monash #MonashUniversity #Protest #WhitlamDismissal #WeWantGough
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I was at the August 1976 anti-Fraser demo at Monash. Since then I've often looked at photos of the event, but today I saw a photo which I'm pretty sure included me! It's impossible to be certain, but several contemporaries have agreed its me. BTW, he was barricaded into a toilet. They claim it was an engineer's office, but also say they had to squeeze him out of a small window. An engineer with only a window that small in his office?
#Fraser #MalcolmFraser #Monash #MonashUniversity #Protest #WhitlamDismissal #WeWantGough
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I was at the August 1976 anti-Fraser demo at Monash. Since then I've often looked at photos of the event, but today I saw a photo which I'm pretty sure included me! It's impossible to be certain, but several contemporaries have agreed its me. BTW, he was barricaded into a toilet. They claim it was an engineer's office, but also say they had to squeeze him out of a small window. An engineer with only a window that small in his office?
#Fraser #MalcolmFraser #Monash #MonashUniversity #Protest #WhitlamDismissal #WeWantGough
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There's a lot to like in #TheDismissalMusical including the #Khemlani conga line, #MalcolmFraser's song Private School Boys, #SirJohnKerr's song Boilermaker's Son and the #QueenElizabethII showstopper towards the end. Great voices and great fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBirx6yG1I
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There's a lot to like in #TheDismissalMusical including the #Khemlani conga line, #MalcolmFraser's song Private School Boys, #SirJohnKerr's song Boilermaker's Son and the #QueenElizabethII showstopper towards the end. Great voices and great fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBirx6yG1I
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There's a lot to like in #TheDismissalMusical including the #Khemlani conga line, #MalcolmFraser's song Private School Boys, #SirJohnKerr's song Boilermaker's Son and the #QueenElizabethII showstopper towards the end. Great voices and great fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBirx6yG1I
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There's a lot to like in #TheDismissalMusical including the #Khemlani conga line, #MalcolmFraser's song Private School Boys, #SirJohnKerr's song Boilermaker's Son and the #QueenElizabethII showstopper towards the end. Great voices and great fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBirx6yG1I
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@KleineMaulwurf 46 years since Australian conservative Prime Minister Fraser, when asked by high school student about solar power in 1977, said the future was in coal (cough, cough) #FossilFuels #Solar #MalcolmFraser