Dot wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 9:20 pm
So with Gough W was he sacked by the GG ? Can Scomo's side vote of no confidence get him out?
Gough W was sacked as the prime minister, not as a politician, the Liberal/country party took office and immediately change the law so it couldn't happen to them .......
The facts that have come out since the dismissal bordered on treason, the then GG was the queen's representative, yet conferred with Prince Charles who kept the queen in the dark about the whole thing and instead worked with the GG and Fraser
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... itlam.html
This piece shows that the GG acted on his own abuse of power to sack Whitlam before Whitlam sacked him .....
Let's face it, Aussies are so lay back that nothing really happened back then when it could have inflamed into riots and hangings, much like what happened in the USA recently, so no doubt everyone will pay this a lot of lip service and then it will all fade away .....
As to whether the Liberal Party will sack him from party membership is yet to be seen, he doesn't have many friends in the party and. now it appears he shafted on the few he had ..... Patricia Karvelas presented an interesting view on it this morning and raises the question "what if .....' \
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdUZJMMEV4
T1 Terry