Fifty years ago, the Whitlam A.L.P. federal government was sacked by the Govenor-General John Kerr. Whitlam’s reformist government had been under sustained attack from forces inside and outside Australia.
The U.S. President, Nixon was angered by Whitlam’s foreign policy initiatives regarding the war in Vietnam and a more assertive independent stance in the world affairs.
International capital in Wall St and London was angered by attempts by the Australian government to borrow billions of petrodollars from sources outside their control.
In Australia, the local lackeys and servants of British imperialism and U.S. imperialism saw the Whitlam government as a danger to their on-going hegemony. These included the Murdoch press, High Court judges Garfield Barwick, Anthony Mason and state Premiers Bjelke-Petersen and Askin, as well as the Liberal and Country parties.
The Govenor-General Kerr had a long history of work with the U.S. funded Congress for Cultural Freedom in Australia and with Law Asia another U.S. front organisation. These forces quickly sought to strangle the growing call for independence for Australia.
There was a coalescence of forces, each acting to remove this mild reforming government. The British establishment – Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip, and Prince Charles through the conduit of the Royal Secretary, Martin Charteris, an ex intelligence officer, was in intimate contact with the British spy agency MI6 and in turn with the US spy agency the CIA, and the Australian spy agency ASIS.
They all directed and supported Kerr in his unconstitutional sacking of an elected government.
- Prince Charles, Malcolm Fraser and John Kerr
The U.S. government, was particularly worried about perceived threats to its spy base at Pine Gap in the Northern Territory and other US bases in Australia. It demanded and received obedience from Australian spy agents ASIO and ASIS and directed its efforts via former coup master and ex-CIA Ambassador to Australia, Marshall Green.
- Marshall Green U.S. Ambassador and coup master
Many writers have researched this topic notably Jenny Hockings and Brian Toohey. John Menadue provides insider detail to these days of treachery to Australian independence.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/the-dismissal-the-role-of-cia-mi6-and-austral-americans
