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Don Randall: West Australian Liberal MP found dead.
JULY 21, 2015.
Tony Abbott expressed his ‘shock and sadness’ over the death of Don Randall.
West Australian Liberal MP Don Randall has died in the gold-mining town of Boddington in his electorate south of Perth, apparently after suffering a suspected heart attack... He was 62 years old.
The former teacher and horse trainer was the member for Canning since 2001, where he built a reputation as a formidable local campaigner.
He had earlier been the member for Swan from 1996 to 1998.
Mr Randall became part of the story of Tony Abbott’s leadership woes in February this year as one of two MPs who moved the motion for a leadership spill against the Prime Minister.
In a statement the Prime Minister said... "It was with shock and sadness that I learnt of the sudden passing of Don Randall".
"It’s hard to credit that this strong voice for Western Australia and servant of our Party has left us so soon".
REST IN PEACE - DON RANDALL:
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LEADERSHIP SPILL IMMINENT...
FEBRUARY 2015. . . CAN PM SURVIVE UNTIL TUESDAY?
FEBRUARY 6, 2015.
TONY ABBOTT SAYS HE WILL FIGHT TO RETAIN TOP JOB AFTER EXPLOSIVE EMAIL TRIGGERS VOTE:
Prime Minister Tony Abbott will fight for his political life on Tuesday after a backbench revolt boiled over to become an all-out contest for the top job in Australian politics.
A vote on a leadership spill has been scheduled after Liberal backbencher Luke Simpkins circulated an email to his entire party on Friday, calling on his colleagues to “bring this to a head”.
The motion was seconded by fellow WA Liberal Don Randall.
If Tuesday’s spill motion succeeds, a second vote would be held to determine the next leader of the LNP government.
Friday’s extraordinary events appeared to lay the groundwork for what is seen as an inevitable push for the leadership by former Liberal leader, Malcolm Turnbull.
"So, I have spoken to Deputy Leader Julie Bishop and we will stand together in urging the party room to defeat this particular motion, and in so doing, in defeating this motion, to vote in favour of the stability and the team that the people voted for at the election", Abbott said.
A statement from Ms Bishop stated... "I agreed with the Prime Minister that due to cabinet solidarity and my position as deputy there should be support for current leadership in spill motion".
A secret ballot would allow Cabinet ministers to cast a vote against the Prime Minister without breaching the principle.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and Employment Minister Eric Abetz also backed a secret ballot.
Forcing MPs and senators to raise their hand in favour of a spill would be expected to work in Mr Abbott’s favour, as dissenters would be 'revealed' and potentially 'face-retribution' if the spill was unsuccessful.
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FEBRUARY 2015.
Fraser becomes staunch critic of Liberal Party:
MARCH 21, 2015.
Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser has been remembered as "a giant of Australian politics" and a "great moral compass" following his death early on Friday morning at the age of 84.
"It is with deep sadness that we inform you that after a brief illness, John Malcolm Fraser died peacefully in the early hours of the morning of 20 March, 2015," a statement released by his office said.
Life after the Lodge remained busy for Mr Fraser; he became a key figure in humanitarian and diplomatic circles, and he became a staunch critic of the Liberals under the next Coalition PM, John Howard, speaking out particularly on Indigenous issues, refugees and anti-terrorism laws.
In 1987, he formed CARE Australia as part of the international CARE network of humanitarian aid organisations.
He remained chairman until 2002.
For two decades there was largely bipartisan consensus on immigration policy, until that was repudiated by the Howard Government.
The 2001 election completed Mr Fraser's estrangement from the Liberal Party.
It was the year the government sent troops to board the Tampa, a cargo vessel carrying asylum seekers who wanted to come to Australia.
It was the era of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, a time when Mr Fraser found fault with politics and politicians from his own side.
"I suppose Pauline Hanson is one answer but she's an excuse really," he said.
"I guess we've got some people in Canberra who believe that what they're doing is right... I believe it is profoundly wrong".
After the election of Tony Abbott as leader in 2009 he resigned from the Liberal Party, after more than six decades and when Mr Abbott began turning back the boat people, Mr Fraser did nothing to hide his contempt.
"You know it's ironic that Pauline Hanson was saying boat people should be sent back... Not too long afterwards that's just what the Government does", he said.
Just last month Mr Fraser launched a scathing attack on Mr Abbott over the Government's treatment of the Human Rights Commission and, in particular, president Gillian Triggs following The Forgotten Children report.
"If the Government had wanted to handle the matter sensibly, they would have said they recognise there have been abuses", Mr Fraser said.
Mr Abbott paid his respects to Mr Fraser, saying he was a "fierce Australian patriot".
"The friendship he built in later life with Gough Whitlam spoke volumes about the character of both men at the centre of the crisis, in their own different ways, they were both fierce Australian patriots", he said.
"His subsequent appointment to roles with the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Nations reflected his high international standing."
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she was saddened to hear of the passing of a "giant of Australian politics".
"With the passing of Gough Whitlam, it really is the end of a political era," she said.
ABC's Insiders host Barrie Cassidy said Mr Fraser was active up until his death.
"I don't know whether anybody saw this coming," he said.
"He tweeted as recently as Wednesday, just two days ago, when he was talking about time for a 'New-China-Vision'.
"I remember seeing another tweet just six weeks ago where he showed his catch after some ocean fishing.
"So he was still in reasonably good health right to the end and still thinking about big global issues."
Former governor-general Bill Hayden said Mr Fraser always maintained his personal respect, especially for his work on Aboriginal affairs and race issues.
"He had many pluses on the scoreboard.
He had his distinguished Aboriginal affairs minister work very hard on the welfare of Aboriginal people," he said.
"He made many important breakthroughs in Africa on the issues of self-determination and democratic rights for people in southern African countries."
Mr Fraser will be remembered for infamous quotes such as, "Life wasn't meant to be easy" and being called "Kerr's cur" by Mr Whitlam, when Mr Whitlam was sacked on November 11, 1975.
REST IN PEACE - MALCOLM FRASER.
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A CONVERSATION WITH MALCOLM FRASER AND GOUGH WHITLAM - 'The-dismissal'
Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam catching up during a book tour by Mr Fraser in 2010.
Thirty years on, Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser agreed on just about everything but the Dismissal.
The party (today) is so different from the party that I joined.Malcolm Fraser
Former Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Malcolm Fraser appear together on June 29, 1992 for the 100th episode of Face the Press on SBS.
Herein lies the one point of absolute consensus. Kerr, as governor-general, deceived Whitlam, as PM.
But Fraser has no interest in re-engaging in an old argument.
"People who are 40 today were 10 when it all happened", he says... "It's history in a major sense and I learned, I think a long while ago, that if you've lived through something, that's part of your life, a reality, maybe an importance... But if it happened out of your immediate memory, it's in a totally different category".
Fraser has not decided whether to comment on the cabinet documents that will be released on New Year's Day under the 30-year secrecy rule, saying his inclination is to let the papers speak for themselves.
PM Malcolm Fraser and Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam at the opening of a steel mill in Geelong in 1976. The workers cheered Mr Whitlam.
Former staff are encouraging him to write a memoir, but so far he is resisting.
"Your memory can change the detail, there's a lot of work in making sure it's accurate and I'm still more interested in what's happening tomorrow than what happened 10 years ago, or 20 years ago".
It is Fraser's commentary on the present that has made him either a hero or a figure of hate within his old party and the broader community.
His most recent speech ratcheted up the pressure for the Government to include more safeguards in its counter-terrorism package, and concluded that it had forfeited the right to say 'trust-us' on such issues.
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OCTOBER 24, 2014.
ACROSS THE POLITICAL AND MEDIA ELITE IN AUSTRALIA, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, who died this week.
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 ~ 1975.
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 U.S. bombing of Vietnam as 'corrupt-and-barbaric', Frank Snepp, a CIA station officer in Saigon at the time 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 U.S. to spy on everyone.
"Try to screw us or bounce us", Whitlam warned the U.S. 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".
In the 1980's, 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.
Governor-General John Kerr's private secretary David Smith reads out the letter ending Gough Whitlam's commission, while Gough looms over his shoulder, 11 November 1975.
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 1960's, Australia pleaded to join the U.S. in its invasion of Vietnam, then provided 'black-teams' to be run by the CIA.
U.S. 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.
REST IN PEACE - GOUGH WHITLAM.
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Tony Abbott: America’s Useful Idiot Down Under:
NOVEMBER 23, 2014.
Like Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and British Prime Minister David Cameron, who also used the Brisbane conclave to insult Putin with undiplomatic rhetoric, Abbott represents a new breed of conservative political 'grand-standers' who have sworn their ultimate loyalty to the United States.
Bill Shorten and Campbell Newman, the Premier of Queensland, for which Brisbane is the capital, criticized Abbott for inviting Putin to the G-20 in the first place.
Shorten is the latest in a long line of 'pro-corporate-leaders' of the 'Australian-Labor-Party', which sold out the trade union movement long ago to become yet another cheerleader for globalization and corporate dominance.
Just before the 'G-20' conclave, Abbott was loudly booed by the public when he arrived at the Sydney Town Hall for the funeral of Australia’s last true Labor Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam.
Abbott’s history as a 'provocateur' for the 'United-States' and the 'Central-Intelligence-Agency' is well-known to Australians who recall how the 'CIA' engineered the ouster of Whitlam in a 1975 'constitutional-coup', in which the Governor General, Sir John Kerr, an appointee of Queen Elizabeth II, dismissed Whitlam and his entire government.
Whitlam had irritated the Gerald Ford administration by asking too many probing questions about the role of U.S. intelligence bases in his country.
At the University of Sydney, Abbott, a 'would-be-Roman-Catholic-priest', organized 'pro-Kerr' demonstrations after the dismissal of the Whitlam government.
That bit of history was not lost on the public gathered for the Whitlam funeral who were revolted by the hypocritical presence of the Australian Prime Minister.
Queensland Premier Newman’s father, Kevin Newman, was also a beneficiary of the CIA putsch against Whitlam, having been appointed to the conservative government appointed by Kerr after Whitlam’s ouster.
The coup against Whitlam, known as 'The-Dismissal', is now widely known to have been engineered by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with the support of White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld and his assistant Dick Cheney.
Nine days after Whitlam's government was deposed, Rumsfeld moved to the Pentagon to become Secretary of Defence and Cheney replaced him as Chief of Staff.
CIA director William Colby was already on shaky ground as a result of his disclosures about past CIA dirty political chicanery.
On January 30, 1976, Colby was gone, replaced by 'George H.W. Bush' who sought to cover up the CIA's role in the ouster of the Whitlam government.
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