Labor’s roundtable has started a long overdue debate on prickly topics

Thumping election victories can have perverse consequences. One of them is how they create the conditions for hubris…
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If we're allied with #AUKUS … who defends us from AUKUS?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence might read later, but I think the liberals might have beaten the #CIA and #Mi6 to it in 1975, according to more recent sources?

Maybe Whitlam needed a better treasurer … Nationalising the mines was a good idea, but "I know a guy who knows a guy" was a terrible way to fund it? Or is that story a bit propaganda?

Still, picking anyone from history #Whitlam + #WayneSwan dream team?

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The British-American coup that ended Australian independence

John Pilger: In 1975 prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died this week, dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price

The Guardian