How Australia Was Stolen – Again: The forgotten coup - how America and Britain crushed the government of their 'ally', Australia

How Australia Was Stolen – Again

The forgotten coup - how America and Britain crushed the government of their 'ally', Australia

Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.

Australia briefly became an independent state during the Whitlam years, 1972-75. An American commentator wrote that no country had "reversed its posture in international affairs so totally without going through a domestic revolution". Whitlam ended his nation's colonial servility. He abolished Royal patronage, moved Australia towards the Non-Aligned Movement, supported "zones of peace" and opposed nuclear weapons testing.

Although not regarded as on the left of the Labor Party, Whitlam was a maverick social democrat of principle, pride and propriety. He believed that a foreign power should not control his country's resources and dictate its economic and foreign policies. He proposed to "buy back the farm". In drafting the first Aboriginal lands rights legislation, his government raised the ghost of the greatest land grab in human history, Britain's colonisation of Australia, and the question of who owned the island-continent's vast natural wealth.

Latin Americans will recognise the audacity and danger of this "breaking free" in a country whose establishment was welded to great, external power. Australians had served every British imperial adventure since the Boxer rebellion was crushed in China. In the 1960s, Australia pleaded to join the US in its invasion of Vietnam, then provided "black teams" to be run by the CIA. US diplomatic cables published last year by WikiLeaks disclose the names of leading figures in both main parties, including a future prime minister and foreign minister, as Washington's informants during the Whitlam years.

Whitlam knew the risk he was taking. The day after his election, he ordered that his staff should not be "vetted or harassed" by the Australian security organisation, ASIO - then, as now, tied to Anglo-American intelligence. When his ministers publicly condemned the US bombing of Vietnam as "corrupt and barbaric", a CIA station officer in Saigon said: "We were told the Australians might as well be regarded as North Vietnamese collaborators."

Whitlam demanded to know if and why the CIA was running a spy base at Pine Gap near Alice Springs, a giant vacuum cleaner which, as Edward Snowden revealed recently, allows the US to spy on everyone. "Try to screw us or bounce us," the prime minister warned the US ambassador, "[and Pine Gap] will become a matter of contention".

Victor Marchetti, the CIA officer who had helped set up Pine Gap, later told me, "This threat to close Pine Gap caused apoplexy in the White House... a kind of Chile [coup] was set in motion."

Pine Gap's top-secret messages were de-coded by a CIA contractor, TRW. One of the de-coders was Christopher Boyce, a young man troubled by the "deception and betrayal of an ally". Boyce revealed that the CIA had infiltrated the Australian political and trade union elite and referred to the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, as "our man Kerr".

Kerr was not only the Queen's man, he had long-standing ties to Anglo-American intelligence. He was an enthusiastic member of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, described by Jonathan Kwitny of the Wall Street Journal in his book, 'The Crimes of Patriots', as, "an elite, invitation-only group... exposed in Congress as being founded, funded and generally run by the CIA". The CIA "paid for Kerr's travel, built his prestige... Kerr continued to go to the CIA for money".

When Whitlam was re-elected for a second term, in 1974, the White House sent Marshall Green to Canberra as ambassador. Green was an imperious, sinister figure who worked in the shadows of America's "deep state". Known as the "coupmaster", he had played a central role in the 1965 coup against President Sukarno in Indonesia - which cost up to a million lives. One of his first speeches in Australia was to the Australian Institute of Directors - described by an alarmed member of the audience as "an incitement to the country's business leaders to rise against the government".

The Americans and British worked together. In 1975, Whitlam discovered that Britain's MI6 was operating against his government. "The Brits were actually decoding secret messages coming into my foreign affairs office," he said later. One of his ministers, Clyde Cameron, told me, "We knew MI6 was bugging Cabinet meetings for the Americans." In the 1980s, senior CIA officers revealed that the "Whitlam problem" had been discussed "with urgency" by the CIA's director, William Colby, and the head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield. A deputy director of the CIA said: "Kerr did what he was told to do."

On 10 November, 1975, Whitlam was shown a top secret telex message sourced to Theodore Shackley, the notorious head of the CIA's East Asia Division, who had helped run the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile two years earlier.

Shackley's message was read to Whitlam. It said that the prime minister of Australia was a security risk in his own country. The day before, Kerr had visited the headquarters of the Defence Signals Directorate, Australia's NSA where he was briefed on the "security crisis".

On 11 November - the day Whitlam was to inform Parliament about the secret CIA presence in Australia - he was summoned by Kerr. Invoking archaic vice-regal "reserve powers", Kerr sacked the democratically elected prime minister. The "Whitlam problem" was solved, and Australian politics never recovered, nor the nation its true independence.

From John Pilger @ http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-forgotten-coup-how-america-and-britain-crushed-the-government-of-their-ally-australia

 

 

The unelected Queen sacked the elected Gough Whitlam

 

Gough Whitlam was an Australian patriot whose pursuit of Labor’s vision for national economic development and national control of resources was such a threat to the British Crown that Queen Elizabeth deposed him.

Whitlam came to office determined to assert Australia’s ownership of its mineral resources, which task he entrusted to his Minerals and Energy Minister Rex Connor, who spearheaded the Whitlam government’s campaign to “buy back the farm”. The biggest foreign owner of Australia’s minerals was CRA—now called Rio Tinto, the British mining giant owned by Queen Elizabeth.

Whitlam also established a Department of Northern Development to implement comprehensive plans for the development of the underdeveloped and underpopulated north, in which Whitlam had personally been involved since 1961. The development plans included Rex Connor’s proposal for a transcontinental gas pipeline. This was the vision for which Connor, and Treasurer Jim Cairns, with Whitlam’s support, sought overseas loans to fund the investment and resource buy-backs.
And it was for this intention to assert Australian sovereignty, not the resulting scandals, that the Queen deposed him—an action so shockingly antidemocratic that Whitlam found it difficult to believe.

He recorded in his book, The Truth of the Matter, that he telephoned the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Martin Charteris, who assured him the Queen was not informed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr of the plan to dismiss Whitlam’s government. Kerr himself maintained he had not consulted the Queen ahead of time.

However, the claims of Kerr and Charteris were proven to be outright lies when the archives of Kerr’s papers were made public decades after his death, which became the basis for a 2012 book by Jenny Hocking, Gough Whitlam: His Time.

The CEC publicised the key finding of Hocking’s research in a 29 August 2012 release. In honour of Gough Whitlam on the occasion of his passing, the CEC is hereby reissuing that release, for the sake of truth, and the ongoing fight for Australian sovereignty.

Fraser, The Queen, Prince Phillip and Kerr (Front row)

 

Whitlam sacking: the Queen did it!

 

For any blockheaded Australian who still doesn’t get it, that it was the British Crown which organised the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam government with continuing, intended disastrous consequences for our economy and our national sovereignty, look in the background of Jenny Hocking’s new book, Gough Whitlam, His Time.

While in the foreground Hocking focuses on Sir Anthony Mason as the rumoured “third man” in the dismissal, it is the drama played out in the background that is the real bombshell, because it provides further proof of what the CEC has charged all along: that the Queen herself presided over the operation to sack Whitlam!

Hocking notes, “Neither Kerr nor the palace ever revealed that, weeks before any action in the Senate had been taken [to block supply], the governor-general had already conferred with the palace on the possibility of the future dismissal of the prime minister, securing in advance the response of the palace to it.” In plain English, “the palace”—the Queen herself—approved the sacking of Whitlam.
Hocking’s archival digging proves that Kerr conspired with the Palace to ensure Whitlam would not be able to use his powers under the constitution to avert the carefully-planned conspiracy to sack his government.
Hocking reveals:

·  A full nine months before the Nov. 11 dismissal, and eight months before the constitutional crisis precipitated by the blocking of “supply”, Kerr took the unusual step of confidentially arranging an ANU-centred “brains trust” of legal minds to brief him on his powers as governor-general, centred upon High Court Justice Sir Anthony Mason.

·  A number of weeks before the Liberal-Country opposition moved to block supply, Kerr, during a September 1975 visit to Papua New Guinea, briefed Prince Charles in person on his concern that Whitlam might get wind of his intention, and ask the Queen to sack Kerr before Kerr could sack him. (Under the Constitution, the Queen appoints the G-G on the advice of the PM.)

·  According to Kerr’s notes of the conversation, uncovered by Hocking, Prince Charles told Kerr that he thought the Queen should not have to accept Whitlam’s advice in that circumstance; in other words, the Australian Constitution was irrelevant.

·  The Prince’s view was not naïve nor uninformed. Charles then spoke to the Queen’s personal private secretary Sir Martin Charteris, who wrote Kerr a letter acknowledging that the Australian constitution did mandate that the Queen would have to accede to advice from the prime minister to dismiss the governor-general, BUT… should “the contingency to which you refer” arise, the Queen would “try to delay things”. Thus the Queen herself signalled to Kerr that the plan to sack Whitlam would succeed.

With whatever its shortcomings, the Whitlam government—the first ALP government for 23 years—was the last gasp of “old Labor” in Australia. Whitlam supported the efforts of his senior ministers Rex Connor and Jim Cairns to “buy back the farm”, to wrest sovereign control of Australia’s huge resource wealth away from the Crown-controlled Anglo-Dutch raw materials cartel, the jewel of which was Rio Tinto (then RTZ and its subsidiary CRA), in which the Queen herself was the largest private shareholder.

At stake wasn’t simply the Royal Family’s own investments, but the entire basis of British imperial power—the City of London’s control of global finance and global raw materials, through which it dictated to governments. As on other occasions, Whitlam had announced during a 1973 trip to Tokyo that “We have an objective of full Australian ownership in development projects involving uranium. We also regard this as a desirable objective in oil, natural gas and black coal”, while in other sectors, he said, the government sought “the highest possible level of Australian ownership.”

His removal soon snuffed out that threat to the Crown, along with the remaining embers of the old Labor tradition of national sovereignty. By the time the ALP next took office in 1983, under Oxford-trained Rhodes scholar Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, Labor had abandoned its traditional commitment to the common good exemplified by tariff protection for agriculture and industry, national ownership of vital raw materials, and sovereign national banking. Instead, they sold out to the City of London by ramming through deregulation, privatisation, and free trade policies that turned Australia into a raw materials quarry from which Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and their cartel partners have ripped out hundreds of billions of dollars.

However, such is the power of the fairy tale believed by little children of all ages at all levels of Australian society—likely including you yourself—that “the Crown is above politics”, that when the Queen’s private secretary Martin Charteris assured Whitlam that “the Queen knew nothing about” his sacking, Whitlam dutifully recorded that as the gospel truth in his autobiography, The Truth of the Matter: “It is a fact that the Queen’s representative in Australia had kept the Queen in the same total ignorance of his actions as he had the Prime Minister of Australia.” And even though Whitlam also described former MI6 agent Kerr as a grovelling toady who would sell his soul for Royal honours, he refused to draw the obvious conclusion that Kerr was working in cahoots with the Crown, even as he dryly observed that following his sacking the Crown showered Kerr with so many gongs that he “had become in a single annus mirabilis the Rt. Hon. Sir John Kerr, AK, GCMG, GCVO, K St J.”

Meanwhile Kerr bragged in his own book, Matters of Judgement, that shortly after Whitlam’s dismissal the Queen herself inducted Kerr into her Privy Council, among numerous other honours she rained down upon him: “In Canberra I was sworn in as a member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council at a meeting presided over by the Queen at Yarralumla.

During an audience on board the Britannia in Fremantle harbour, Her Majesty invested me as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. (I had previously, in 1975 when the Queen established the Order of Australia of which she is Sovereign, became the first Chancellor and a Companion of the Order and later, when the rank of knighthood was introduced, the first Knight of the Order of Australia. In 1976 Her Majesty had promoted me to the rank of Knight Grand Cross in the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Throughout my Governor-Generalship I was Prior in Australia and a Knight in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem…)”

Along with Kerr, the Queen also rewarded Kerr’s private secretary and co-conspirator, Sir David Smith (who publicly read the famous proclamation dismissing Whitlam), by anointing him as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. This Royal Victorian Order is the third highest honour in the British Empire, and is awarded as “a recognition of personal service to the reigning Sovereign”. It is granted by the Queen herself, without the recommendation of any of her government...

But this was far from the only evil which the Crown in this era perpetrated against Australia…

Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood today challenged Australians to quit being little children, to finally grow up and face the truth about the Royals: “Most Australians despise the deregulation, privatisation, free trade and green fascist policies that have destroyed the Australian economy, but they have turned a blind eye to the clear evidence that it is the Crown which has created these policies, and it is the Crown which is ramming them down our throats. In fact, Australians often even tug their forelocks and curtsy to the same Royals who are killing them. If you want a future for yourself or for your children, you will join our fight to overturn all these British imperial policies, beginning with circulating our call, “The Future of Australia: Develop or Die”.

For a free copy of the CEC’s 1998 magazine, “Stop the British Crown plot to crush Australia’s unions”, which includes more background on Whitlam’s efforts to ‘buy back the farm’, click here.

Citizens Electoral Council of Australia - Media Release  Thursday, 23 October 2014

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://www.cecaust.com.au

Via The Tap @ http://the-tap.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/the-unelected-queen-sacked-elected.html

 

Gough Whitlam –

Australia's greatest Prime Minister

 

 

The White Lamb is no more. The greatest statesman and reformer Australia has ever known didn't quite make a century - Gough Whitlam rounded off at 98 today.

In three short years this visionary Labor Prime Minister introduced free health care, free university education, land rights for Aboriginal people, sweeping divorce and family law reforms, ended conscription and involvement in the Vietnam War, freed the conscientious objectors, ended the notorious vestiges of the 'White Australia' policy, abolished the death penalty and sex discrimination, introduced welfare for single mothers, recognised and visited China - the first western leader to do so - and utterly transformed the face and substance of the nation despite endless attacks by a COALition that had ruled unopposed for a generation and detested him for beating them.

Now those who helped bring him down by blocking supply (money) to the government and strangling the country into economic chaos blithely blame him for the poisoned fruits of their actions. They denounced all of his reforms but revoked none of them when placed in power by fiat of the Queen's cur, the 'Governor General', in an unconstitutional coup.

Black budget CIA slush funds piped full page ads into every newpaper on behalf of major corporations, all blackening his name. The media was twisted against him in well documented intelligence ploys. His party and staffers were infiltrated by well-known CIA identities. At least they didn't just shoot him, as the same players did to Allende in Chile a couple of years earlier.

Amid all the acclamations and declarations of adulation by those who stabbed him in the back, the elephant in the room - that finally knocked him off in the country's notorious 1975 coup engineered by MI6 and the CIA - isn't even mentioned.

The fact that a tiny allied country threatened to evict US bases at the height of the Cold War is rarely brought up, but that's the reason his democratically elected government was removed by higher 'intelligence' powers whose identities are still unrecognised, despite being well known at the time.

But history is rewritten and erased all the time.

Have you ever heard of a little place called Pine Gap?

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-         R. Ayana via The Tap @ http://the-tap.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/gough-whitlam-australias-greatest-prime.html

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