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Australian politics, China, defence, Gough Whitlam Oration, land rights, Malcolm Fraser, multi-culturalism, USA
The Pig’s Arms own faceless (and also nameless) numbers man was at the Gough Whitlam Oration with his trusty recorder wide open in his bootleg.
The rustling is the sound of leg hair on leather – which some patrons may find particularly attractive.
Here’s the entire event.
Starting with the University of Western Sydney Chancellor Shergold, Aunty Sandra’s welcome to country, John Faulkner’s Introduction (at 06:25), Gough for a minute (recorded video at 11:29) and Malcolm (at 12:30).
It goes for about 1 hour 25 minutes all up including thank yous and closing remarks by the VC – and will chew about 40MB of your bandwidth. But it’s well worth it.
Here’s the Transcript
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After reading the transcript, I can see why the modern day conservatives dislike Malcolm Frazer. He harks back to a day when Liberals were infact Liberals. That he in no longer a member of the the Liberal party just shows how far they have slammed to the right.
He sees the Tampa issue as a tipping point in our attitude to refugees, yet are our attitudes much differnt to say those of the Vietnamese boat people. They certainley weren;’t as reviled as those who come now. A few years ago I employed one of these early boat people, he was a good worker, smart and reliable. I asked of his story, his parents sent him off in a boat with his sister, who bought him up, he came as a child. His parents thought of a better life for him than that of the communists. In turn he went back to visit his parents, for him though this eventually led to a breakdown, a crissi in identity as his parents were someone he didn’t know and a family richness that was never available to him. He quit his job and I’ve lost touch with him.
Frazer was a Liberal in the Menzies tradition. The modern Liberals are little more than Nazis in comparison. At least before Tampa we were a more compassionate nation towards refugees, after that Howard unleashed the rednecks and the detritus of our society.
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Mate, Therese mate, I called in earlier to the Anna Bligh Memorial Cinema Upstairs. (See HOME page). Only to find now here’s a flick on here.
Have to get some shut eye mate,
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I aways thought that Whitlam would go before his wife…Margareth seemed stronger of those two, you just never know…they were a power couple in Oz politics.
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Whitlam will always be my hero. Fraser has redeemed himself enough for previous disdain to have gone. His resignation from the Liberal party put his redemption in bronze.
They look very cosy together now, don’t they?
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