https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-24/pine-gap-alice-springs-residents-conflicted/106468888

Sure, helping a madman to murder schoolkids is bound to make you uneasy, it's enough to put you off your beer.

The last PM to want to know what is happening at Pine Gap got sacked, so Anthony is just letting them do whatever they like.

#FuckWar

Alice Springs locals conflicted over spy base's role in Iran war

Alice Springs residents with family in the Middle East are grappling with the role the highly secretive Pine Gap base may be playing in the Iran war from their own backyard. 

@Spoon so did Whitlam ask about Pine Gap then?

@DarkMatterZine

He did indeed and the evidence of CIA involvement has been hidden for years.

The most likely scenario is that the CIA encouraged Charles and that he, brainless twerp that he is, provide Kerr with the justifications he needed.

Pine Gap will be amongst the first places to be nuked if a nuclear war starts.

We don't need the details of Pine Gap's activities. The fact that it is top secret means that it's critically involved.

@Spoon Yeah. I remember first learning about it in high school. It’s always been a “night terror” for informed Australians.

@DarkMatterZine

This critical Australian history has been twisted, concealed and lied about from the moment it occurred. If interested you will find the bare bones here;
https://whitlamdismissal.com/what-happened/
This doesn't cover that which has been confirmed by the release of the Palace papers and what can be inferred by that which was not released.
The supposed reason was The Khemlani Affair, government borrowing when supply was refused, but IMHO supply was refused because Whitlam was perceived as a threat by conservatives in England and the US.

Whitlam's legislative achievements include but are by no means limited to introduction of universal healthcare, the abolition of conscription, the establishment of formal relations with China, and the repeal of discriminatory provisions in the White Australia policy. Additionally, they abolished tertiary education fees and withdrew Australian forces from the Vietnam War.

Compare this to the legislative quagmire today.

I won't go on except to say that I was released from gaol as a conscientious objector by a direct order from PM Whitlam and that I have 2 post graduate higher degrees that were free. I was paid to do my second degree.

Thanks Gough.

What Happened? - WhitlamDismissal.com

The Dismissal of the Whitlam Government by the Governor-General, on November 11, 1975, still stands as the most dramatic and controversial event in

WhitlamDismissal.com
@Spoon omg we’ve lost so much, you’re a hero and I’m so glad that went well in the end. Yesterday I learned that the bomb outside the Israel Embassy in London (~1994) was, according to an MI5 guy at the time, too sophisticated for any group other than Mossad and yet 2 Palestine activists were convicted. I feel for you all.

@DarkMatterZine I assure you I'm no hero At the time I went with the crowd without any real thought. Conscientious objection seemed the only reasonable option. From this distance in life I don't really know that person that was me at all.

Whitlam knew that they wouldn't have much time which explains their legislative hurry. In the early days when the Cabinet consisted of just three ministers Whitlam, not one to underestimate his own abilities, was asked did he not think the cabinet was too small. He replied that, on the contrary, he thought there were two too many.

Just as I don't really know the past me, Anthony has not the faintest trace of knowledge of past Labor leaders.

@Spoon Albo has been really clear on many occasions that Labor is NO LONGER the workers’ party. This is partly to distance himself from union roots as if unions are inherently evil but it’s also because he sucks up to Murdoch, mining etc. He’s forgotten who votes and all of the ALP seems arrogant right now, assuming their victories aren’t mostly votes against the LNP and Trump. The ALP will have a reckoning. Also, Albo’s been in parliament a LONG TIME.