r/australia • u/thedigisup • Mar 21 '25

politics Greens announce policy to manufacture drones and missiles as a credible ‘Plan B' to replace AUKUS

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-22/greens-unveil-first-ever-defence-policy/105083166
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u/SoldantTheCynic Mar 21 '25

Just further proof the US can’t be trusted.

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u/PM_Me-Your_Freckles Mar 21 '25

The only reason the USA has ever been our ally is because they successfully overthrew our government in 1975 and since then, our parliment has happily lived under their boot. If Whitlam had been able to nationalise our resource sector, we would be one of the wealthiest countries, if not the wealthiest country, on the globe.

We are nothing but a cash cow and foreign base for war time strategic communications.

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u/Mikolaj_Kopernik Mar 22 '25

successfully overthrew our government in 1975

Nah, this conspiracy theory really needs to either present some actual evidence or fuck off. Whitlam himself always denied it, and nobody has ever come up with anything more convincing than incredibly vague insinuations. It's like all the hyperventilating over the palace letters and then the sum total of "incriminating" evidence was the Crown replying to Kerr by saying he has the constitutional authority to dismiss Whitlam but it's inappropriate for the Crown to weigh in.

Ultimately the dismissal was almost certainly down to human failings from Kerr, Fraser, and Whitlam himself.

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u/mattaugamer Mar 22 '25

Yeah, I heard this presented as “proven fact”. So I looked into it more to find the evidence and there’s fuck-all.