Special Report: ‘The Whitlam Letters - Inside The Dismissal’
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- čas přidán 18. 07. 2020
- Sky News Australia delves into the 1975 Whitlam Dismissal, the ensuing conspiracies over what drove Governor-General John Kerr to make his fateful decision, and the recently released ‘Palace Letters’ in this special report.
After 45 years and countless theories surrounding Queen Elizabeth’s alleged involvement in the sacking of Prime Mister Gough Whitlam, the letters were finally released by the National Archives this week following a decade long legal battle to make them publicly available.
Speaking to historians, journalists, constitutional experts, and those who were there in November 1975, Sky News analyses the correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Buckingham Palace.
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As already pointed out below, if the letters exonerated the Queen they would not have fought tooth and nail to keep them concealed.
As we know human nature before the time it was released there could’ve been destruction of papers before it was released. They could’ve gone through those papers like a tooth comb to keep papers that kept the monarch independent or neutral. But others were removed that might have been questioned her involvement. But I’m not going to make conspiracy over this because the whole saga shouldn’t have happened because the way the senate was not democratically constructed by the time the government was sacked. The premiers changed the composition of the senate giving Fraser a one seat majority and the ability to block supply. When Patrick Field was elected in place of the death of the Labor Senator Richard Milliner. Because of this it was simple only advice Governor General should’ve accepted was 1/2 Senate election, to ensure the composition of the senate is determined by the people of respective state.
Politicians and their hangers on always want to weaken the powers that can remove them.
Australia's great shame, are we gutless under Rupert Murdoch bullshit.
Bruce Nenke. Rupert Murdoch, Rich well he be, but he has no Soul, no Spirit, & a face like a dropped Pie.
bruce nenke. Well may he be rich, but he has no SOUL, nor has he any SPIRIT; & he has a face that looks like a dropped pie.
The GG has the power of the Monarch. When the GG exercises ultimate power it as if the Sovereign made the decision. The Monarch is the head of state, not the PM. A PM is the Monarch's PM.
Your technally right in that sense .But let me use a analogy from the movie crimson tide .When the judge gave his assessment when he said you are both right and you are both wrong .And history will have contemplate this .the same can be said the powers of monach .Aspeically 1975 .because whether Betty knew or didn't know .No one and I mean No one should have that awesome power except the people them selves .Though general elections .Even tho a general election was called No first minister should have never been dismissed other by the people .them selves .
well said, but it worth remembering that the King/GG are arguably more powerful in the written, dominion style, constitution than in Westminster. Kerr could point to powers set out in law, not just use of a royal prerogative.
You'd think somebody could have found a box-cutter instead of just tearing open those historic old archival boxes.
Bill King.Especially post '9/11', in Australia, they are being called "Box-Cutters". In Australia, they have always been called "Stanley Knives".
There should be no mechanism in Australia for a democratically elected PM to be dismissed except via an election. Not by the GG. Not by the monarch. It makes no difference that the monarch was not involved in Gough's dismissal.Stay in the Commonwealth, but bring on a Republic.
Reggie Elise. Are ye Mental? What's the Republic Rubbish about? Is It Divide & Conquer?, instead of We are ALL One.
😂
That's like saying the term "Sovereign Citizen" is not an oxymoron but a real word.
Meaning you can't be a Republic in a Commonwealth realm as the two are like opposing magnetic poles.
The Obama of his time
Garbage comment from a compliant tool. You literally know nothing.
Dismiss Dan
It was Jo Bjelke Peterson who caused this event, when he replaced a deceased Labor Senator with Pat Field, instead of Labor-nominated Mal Colston. Pat Field had been a member of Labor, but was known for his dislike of Whitlam and some Labor policies. This breach of convention was politically motivated and unforgivable.
It is interesting that it all happened on a day the Queen would have been extremely difficult to get hold of. Early morning in Aus is the night before in London and the Queen would have been attending the Festival of rememberence at the Albert Hall. (No-one would want to be the govt official asking the palace to get her out of bed). Late afternoon on 11th in Aus is early morning on the 11th in London when the Queen would've been on parade at the cenotaph
Whitlam makes Joe Biden look rational.
Next time you're bullied by China or Russia, don't seek seek help from our irrational president. Use your boomerang.
All this boo hoo from socialist,
Funny how Fraser romped it in
A landslide. Even Hawke distanced
Himself from the Whitlam government. He knew you had to
Have economic stability.
Incompetence was hip and fashionable in the 1970s.
It was a political rather than a constitutional crisis. As Whitlam always said if HM had known she would've asked "what does the PM say?" The Queen would have publically backed her Government, But the PM only has the Queen's commission on condition he commands the confidence of Parliament. Facing the same dilemma she would've brokered a compromise behind the scenes (we'd know nothing about it for 30 years).
Of course you some how butchered this
Alarm bells should have been ringing the moment they sent Marshall Green in as US Ambassador.
Nice to see Charlie Rich acting as Governer General of Australia!
They should of sacked him before the signing our country away and after they should of removed it but they didn't
It wasn't just the elite who were relieved. The middle class were also rejoicing.
The dominant section, certainly, Australia even then being a very suburbanite (urban) nation with a deeply elite conformist (vs conservative) petty bourgeoise. I remember it well and the earlier scorn for those who - in the best traditions of organised labour - opposed the Imperialist war in Vietnam, a war, largely, I'd say, motivated by the Military Industrial Complex along with the emerging opposition to any kind of genuine nationalism. See my comment above re the cause of the "coup".
@@trackdusty It was about supply being blocked. From where do you nut cases conjure these theories?
@@elizabethblackwell6242 That was a pretty rude response! Dusty Camino was giving his theory why Fraser and the Liberal opposition thought it was within their legitimate role to usurp the duly elected prime Minister of Australia, via the means of the unelected Governor General. The outcome may have suited the majority at the time, but in hindsight it is embarrassing to think we were treated the same as you may expect of a small pacific nation under British rule .
Whitlam's policies will remain in place long after the names of subsequent Liberal Prime Ministers have been forgotten.
@@elizabethblackwell6242 That was the bare bones of it which suits a certain political position. The real issue was that behind that ("WHY was supply...") was the substantive politics. By supporting that position, your ilk supported the CIA inspired coup against a democratically elected government. The fact that the government was white anted from within (echoes of this in the video even now) and faced an enormous saturation barrage against it from ALL the media meant that it lost the support of the the people in the election.
I support all nationalist governments and the ALP still represented that in some measure ("buying back the farm" epitomised it). Trump represents nationalists and talks nationalist policies. Against the subversive vermin that destabilise his government, he is eminently supportable. Was the proto-globalist, Multiculturalist, Fraser? Was Hawke-Keating the arch Globalists? Is pigface Morrison? Or the contemporary pansyfied ALP?
Britain was not realy playing a global role by 1975, their was a small RN firgate presence in the Gulf, HK and the Indian Ocean and quite a lot of RN frigates stilll wintered over in NZ and Australian ports on endless 15 month global tours, which maintained presence, arms sales, recruitment. Keeping much of the older frigates, as far as possible away from blimey, stopped instant Tory and mainly Labour Defence cuts ( a 6 month + delay, getting back to Plymouth could save frigates and commands. A new minister or new round of the cod war could deliver) 'hiding from Healy'. However the former British CDS, Admiral Mountbatten and Lord Elworthy were still politically active, at the court and played a rather significant role in Australasian politics. Both of course were close to the Queen, first cuz by marriage and Master of Windsor and Charles and Sam Eloworthy never ceased to be militantly involved in illinformed and reactionary way in UK and NZ poliitcs for the rest of the twentieth century. At the time from his South Canterbury base at the time of the Falklands war and Anzus defence crisis Air Marshall Samuel Elworthy was still a terrifying and active force. Elworthy of course was at Marlborough public school in the early 1920s and at Trinty College Cabridge at thet same time as the leading Communist spies were incubating and had particular reasons for vigorous action against perceived anti establishment leftists, anti nuclear ' fiends' and anyone who opposed the right rural order and in NZ the departure of Canterbury cities and towns from country centric 19C order. Fraser was hardly an improvement. Sam Elworthy left NZ at age 10 and returned to Sth Canterbury aged 68 to revert NZ to the Nineteenth Century and to continue his fight against the RN and the Twentieth Century in his alternative court of the chief UK MOD advisers, 25 miles out of Timaru.
R I P MR WITLAM
I think the bigger issue was that the last resort powers were used before all other options had been exhausted and it was used in a way that made it seem that the opposition could conspire with the GG to sack a Government when the time was best for them to get elected. Whitlam wanted to run an election that could have solved the issue but the GG intervened too early giving rise to the thought that perhaps they have too much power
Kerr's media vanity makes Donald Trump look same.
As an American, I'd take Kerr over an incompetent fascist.
Was a good show until Kelly and Jones showed up.
Whitlam was re-elected 18/5/1974
Those were the days - miss Gough.
😂 Australia’s a joke!
A Heat. It, the land, AND the Stinkin' Pollies mostly are, BUT the Aussies are not.
Your not just whistling Dixie on that its a section in the constitution that should never been put in their .As usual Written in by a bunch of dodgy lawyers you wouldn't trust your will with .The only section that GG use as a last resort was able to use when theirs deadlock was to have the power/trigger with a election but NOT to withdraw a first ministers of a executive Government his/her commission .Not even Betty should that Prerogative .The only people who should have that awesome power are the people them selves which they do through general elections .
The United States had great reasons to fear this loose irresponsible Australian regime. The fact Whitlam was in many ways a libertarian radical opening both economy and society was interesting but to Washington essentially irrelevant but usable. And Washington was right to think serious communist Russian diplomats operating unchecked in Canberra. GRU old boys chatting the talent at ANU.
The world had yet to hear of the Walker brother Aldrich Aimes and Phillip Agee.
The People of this land constituted this country under the Peoples Imperial Crown and called it the Commonwealth of Australia with a foundation in Law built from the 1611 authorised KJV... Completely seperate from the VATICAN papal system of Roman Admiralty jurisdiction... the treacherous Queen and politician's coerced the People here into a foreign corporation called AUSTRALIA which sits under the Saint Edwards Crown tied to the VATICAN.
The Commonwealth of Australia and our Imperial Crown it sits under belongs to we the people by birthright. Everything that this country is now under is not that entity. This country now sits under the Saint Edwards Crown which serves the VATICAN and has set up as a corporation with company's that operate on our land no different to that of McDonald's.
Do you understand that the politician's secretly changed the countries governance over to a de facto line of Authority and are in fact imposters masquerading as the de jure Authority when they are 100% a foreign entity at Law making that entity a foreign military occupation administering our government office's.
The Parliament/government and all departments on this land that we live serve a foreign Crown. The ANZAC defended the Imperial Crown of the Commonwealth of Australia with a line of Authority linking back the the people of the land as the Supreme Power over their federal government... They didn't lay their lives down to have their people coerced into personage inside a foreign private owned corporation pushing us into U.N. Agendas through a foreign Statute of Rome under a foreign Saint Edwards Crown tied straight to the Foreign VATICAN CITY under the control of Poo bankers whom have orchestrated every war since back as far as the American Revolution.
I think the People should wake up to their closest enemy before it's to late.
Maybe you missed the memo that the Queen is head of the Church of England not Catholic in any ways or means .
@@oldtimers6460 maybe you don't understand what faith that the Saint Edwards Crown she took is tied to through lineage. That lineage was removed, the crown was destroyed and both were outlawed from the monarchy after the ordered death of the Catholic King Charles the 1st. Elizabeth Windsor is a Traitor to the people's Faith and Kingdom.
@@oldtimers6460 Don't engage with this lunatic. She pretends she's a constitutional law expert. She routinely contradicts my husband who is an ACTUAL Oxford educated constitutional law QC. She often says he's wrong and she's right. She's a total whack job. She thinks the UK is controlled by the Catholics, for example!!
@@elizabethblackwell6242 and this woman's husband is part of the criminal cabal as one of those lawyers whom lie steal and operate under the colour of law rather than the truth. I feel honoured you try to discredit me young lady. But perhaps you should be looking at shoring up your own house before attacking mine. Your husband is in big trouble being a constitutional lawyer whom has been hiding truth and forcing a foreign constitution holding up the republic this government is. That's treachery against the Commonwealth of Australia and holds 25 to life 😉
@@elizabethblackwell6242 do you know what the CITY OF LONDON is? Also while you're here, please give me a run down on the history and the line of lineage which that Saint Edwards Crown holds? Where did it come from.... who was King Edward the confessor... was he a Catholic King... was this King canonized by the Pope... why was that Saint Edwards Crown destroyed by orders from the people after Charles the 1st was executed. Many questions I would love for you to answer Miss Blackwell if you please...
Loved Gough Whitlam! He was the very best thing to happen to this country in many a long year. How dare a foreign appointed Snake destroy our Democracy. That is what was done.
@T B Ignoramist
The Governor General was selected by PM Whitlam ?
In this moment of weakness for the Anglo-American world order Australia should elect another man like Whitlam. Now or maybe never!
Lmfao, Whitlam didn't give you Democracy, Australia's Democracy came from Queen Victoria, who in the best interests of the people provided the country's first Original Constitution, a constitution made in such a specific way in its design for its people to maintain control over its government.
Whitlam seeked to destroy that control and opened the flood gate for it to happen..... fast forward to 1986 and it was HAWKE and KEATING who implemented the current in effect constitution Australia Act Constitution without a referendum in 1986, thus making it a political and politically installed constitution without the consent of the Australian masses where government has the supreme power, and the masses have none, hell you cant even sack government, where such a thing could happen via the GovernorGeneral, prior to 1986.
Yea, let's cheer Whitlam, the one who implemented a plan to remove your rights and powers handed down to you by a Queen, and hand all your rights and powers to a government.
Bravo 👏 👏 👏 👏