A comment from a post in which Gough Whitlam was referred to as a politician who "delivered so much for Australians who had felt overlooked for too long".

I mean, I'm not a fan of politicians... but whatever you want to say about Whitlam, he fucking PASSED some legislation.

#AusPol #Australia #GoughWhitlam #Whitlam

Part of the story brief was that it must take place on an important date from the past 50 years. I chose #TheDismissal of #GoughWhitlam's Labor government on 11 November 1975. ✍️

#writers #writing #sciencefiction #timetravel #shortstories

Link to story on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/short-stories/the-dismissal-paradox

Auspol #GoughWhitlam #JohnMenadue #TheDismissal
#Zionism #TheLoansAffair #PinceKingCharles #PineGap
#ForeignInvestments #Power #TheLoansAffair

What would Whitlam think of the Albanese Government?
an interesting conversation between John Menadue and Bart Shteinman about whitlam’s style, compared to that of albanese
—-a mid length but rewarding read covering a range of topics

“John Menadue: On the American relationship, it would be very, very different. Whitlam showed his colours about a month after his election by criticising the American bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. The Americans were terribly upset with that, because we were supposed to be a locked-in ally. People around the White House with Nixon were calling us — or at least the Australian Government, the prime minister — “North Vietnamese collaborators”. And there were some rude words that Nixon said about Whitlam – that they were “peaceniks” or worse!”

and
“Whitlam was the first person who explained to me the difference between Judaism and Zionism. As a young man I hadn’t appreciated the difference. He explained it to me, and it was quite a revelation.”
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an interjection from maude:

incidentally, 🤔 iirc, israel in the 60s & 70s had the west’s sympathy (“remember the holocaust”, and Leon Uris books)… the reaction in 1978 after the oscars where Vanessa Redgrave spoke in favour of Palestine was huge

anyway, back to the article discussing whitlam and albanese
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“John Menadue: Most people would agree the politics of the Connor fundraising left a lot to be desired. It was messy, very difficult. Gough expressed a lack of confidence in Treasury and Treasury paid it back in spades, leaking a lot of information about the loan raising. So it was politically very damaging.
But what drove Rex Connor and was supported in the Labor Party generally was lost sight of in the whole “loans affair”. It was an attempt by the government to address the problem of foreign ownership of our resources. Now, around 80% of our resource industries are owned offshore: BHP, Rio Tinto, and so on, and Rex Connor was trying to head that off. Instead of selling off our companies, we would borrow but retain ownership in Australia. That would have been difficult to achieve, but that’s what drove Rex Connor, and most Australians would applaud that now.”

and
“We often hear Lord Acton: “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” but it was Robert Caro who made the point that power reveals what people are really like…”

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/what-would-whitlam-think-of-the-albanese-government/

Indigenous teen speaks out against heckling of Welcome to Country

When an Indigenous high school student from rural New South Wales saw an elder being booed while welcoming…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AcknowledgmentofCountry #AU #Australia #CoonabarabranHighSchool #GoughWhitlam #LakiahChatfield #Racism #welcometocountry #WhitlamWhatMatters #Whitlamwritingcompetition
https://www.newsbeep.com/145154/