this is exactly how this should play out. the outcome might not be fair or ideal, however the whitlam government could not govern with the situation at the time after 2 attempts. in these situations, there are no good options: deferring power to the governor general to force a functional government is, imo, a better option than people fighting for control with violence or government shutdown etc… you can disagree, and that’s fine but in general i think that australian culture tends to side with my way of doing things, and it’s worked out for us so far
and no i’m not really interested in gaming out what ifs and multiverse theories of how things might have or will go in some arbitrary future because the reality of the situation right now is australia is a great place to live and the largest constitutional crisis ever ended in a pretty fine outcome in the long term and has never happened again
and i completely agree - the CIA has its fingers way too far into australian politics, and i think there’s likely been a lot of modern examples of this too
but it’s not like the CIA can just up and replace our government with 1 weird trick lol
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Except that it already happened once: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
this is exactly how this should play out. the outcome might not be fair or ideal, however the whitlam government could not govern with the situation at the time after 2 attempts. in these situations, there are no good options: deferring power to the governor general to force a functional government is, imo, a better option than people fighting for control with violence or government shutdown etc… you can disagree, and that’s fine but in general i think that australian culture tends to side with my way of doing things, and it’s worked out for us so far
and no i’m not really interested in gaming out what ifs and multiverse theories of how things might have or will go in some arbitrary future because the reality of the situation right now is australia is a great place to live and the largest constitutional crisis ever ended in a pretty fine outcome in the long term and has never happened again
I was referring to the allegations that the GG had CIA ties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the_Whitlam_dismissal, though both Whitlam and Kerr deny it.
In general the way that played out is fine, and we’ve had related issues pop up here in Canada too.
and i completely agree - the CIA has its fingers way too far into australian politics, and i think there’s likely been a lot of modern examples of this too
but it’s not like the CIA can just up and replace our government with 1 weird trick lol