Australia/Deep state
Australia/Deep state (Deep state) | |
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Abbreviation | AU/DS |
Headquarters | Australia?, London? |
The Australian deep state may be closely controlled from London/Washington, and used as a testground for emerging social control legislation. |
The Australian deep state is not yet well documented here. Although nominally independent from London, in 1975 The UK and US deep states collaborated to carry out a clandestine coup d'etat against Gough Whitlam (which was not well understood at the time). It marches in lock step with The Deep State on topics such as the "war on terror" and the COVID-19/Lockdown.
Contents
History
As a British colony, Australia was overtly ruled from London. This was brought to an official end by the Statute of Westminster in 1931.[Why?] As with other colonies, the UK deep state continued its control.[citation needed]
1940s
In 1949, the government of Prime Minister Ben Chifley and Foreign Affairs Minister Herbert Vere Evatt was considered ‘unsafe’ and subjected to Cold War smears and an American-backed campaign to install the conservative Robert Menzies, an Anglophile and imperial figure as PM[1].
1950s
1960s
1970s
Removal of Gough Whitlam
- Full article: 1975 Australian coup d'etat
- Full article: 1975 Australian coup d'etat
Gough Whitlam became Prime Minister of Australia on 5 December 1972 and carried out policies unwelcome to the UK and the USA. Some of his ministers publicly criticised the Vietnam War, condemning the US indiscriminate bombing of towns, civilian targets and dense population centres as corrupt and barbaric. Whitlam also expressed his unhappiness about the Pine Gap spy station in the middle of Australia, spying on everyone including civilians, government and military.[2] In 1974, the White House made 'coupmaster' Marshall Green the US ambassador to Australia. In 1975, a clandestine coup d'etat removed Whitlam from power.
1990s
The Australian American Leadership Dialogue was formed in 1992, a "private diplomatic initiative". The first meeting, in June 1993, was attended US deep state affiliates including Richard Cheney, Karl Rove, Richard Armitage and Robert B. Zoellick.[3]
2000s
The Australian deep state has promoted the "war on terror".
2000s
The Australian deep state has promoted the "war on terror".
2010s
In 2010, a cabal of Labor Party and trade union powerbrokers, acting on behalf of the US embassy, carried out what amounted to a backroom, inner-party coup to remove Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and install his deputy, Julia Gillard, as his replacement. Secret US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks in December 2010 revealed that “protected sources” of the US embassy were pivotal figures in Gillard’s elevation.[4]
Documents from the Integrity Initiative Leak refer to an Integrity Initiative Australian cluster, although they do not reveal its membership.[5]
"In the 2019 report, Australia’s democratic ‘status’ dropped. This was due to recent police raids on media outlets, the growing trend of prosecuting whistleblowers."[6]
2020s
Unlimited spying on citizenry
- Full article: Australia/Universal surveillance
- Full article: Australia/Universal surveillance
After a 2015 bill claimed that the government had rights to carry out very broad warrantless mass surveillance of electronic media, including banning warrant canaries. The powers claimed were so broad that they have been called "nearly unlimited",[7] but efforts continue to expand their scope and use more resources to track and monitor citizens. In December 2018, it passed laws which claim the right to compel both "local and international providers — including overseas communication giants such as Facebook and WhatsApp — to remove electronic protections, conceal covert operations by government agencies, and help with access to devices or services."[8]
COVID-19/Lockdown
- Full article: COVID-19/Lockdown
- Full article: COVID-19/Lockdown
Although reporting relatively few deaths due to COVID-19, Australia took a decidedly extremist line during the COVID panic of 2020, enforcing strict COVID lockdown measures and drastically curtailing freedom of speech as well as freedom of movement.
Australian Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission members
Australia has had very few Bilderbergers.
- Keith Officer - Diplomat and attendee of the 1956 Bilderberg
The country is better represented in the Trilateral Commission
References
- ↑ http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-last-dream-other-peoples-wars
- ↑ http://one-just-world.blogspot.com/2016_02_01_archive.html
- ↑ Vince Scappatura, The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy p 125
- ↑ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/24/coup-j24.html
- ↑ Document:Integrity Initiative Weekly Report 16th to 22nd July 2018
- ↑ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/australia-s-democracy-has-been-downgraded-from-open-to-narrowed?
- ↑ http://boingboing.net/2015/03/26/australia-outlaws-warrant-cana.html
- ↑ https://sg.news.yahoo.com/australia-passes-cyber-snooping-laws-global-implications-103222310.html