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Haha that Guardian article is written by John Pilger. Australia’s own Michael Moore but far more left wing and conspiracy theorist so take it with a grain of salt.
Australia was going through what can be simply described as a ‘government shutdown’ situation where the PM Gough Whitlam’s Party (Aus. Labor Party) was having their financial budget blocked in Senate by the (Aus. Liberal-Country Party) because the Labor Party’s part in the Loans Affair which unconstitutionally bypassing funding of the Australian treasury at the time.
The government shutdown came to a head when Governor-General sacked the PM via permission of Queen Elizabeth and only if the Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser could stop blocking the budget in the Senate of which he did.
Of course this lead to an election shortly after as Malcolm Fraser obvious did not have the confidence of the House or Reps as it was held by a majority of Labor members of Parliament.
But when the election happened, the Labor Party was kicked out by the Australian public and Malcolm Fraser’s government won in a landslide victory in 1975.
Comment by Djinjja-Ninja at 03/12/2019 at 21:51 UTC
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Interesting stuff.
To be fair I didn't look much further than the article because I was so flabbergasted that the Australian one had even a ring of truth about it.
Comment by IAmAHat_AMAA at 03/12/2019 at 21:53 UTC
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sacked the PM via permission of Queen Elizabeth
That's an exceptionally contentious statement and the subject of current legal action