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"It's my fault that I didn't check on his background because, if I had asked any of the judges on the NSW Supreme Court ... they would have told me he had a drink problem."

Mr Whitlam has previously described Sir John as a "drunk" and referred to his behaviour at the Tamworth Show in 1976, when he fell over, and at the Melbourne Cup in 1977, which prompted Mr Whitlam to write in The Truth of the Matter that Sir John was like Caligula, "weaving his way down from the imperial box and making his merry remarks to the owner, the fascinated crowd and a million viewers [who] may have thought that the horse would have made a better proconsul".

However, this is the first public suggestion that Sir John went to hospital because of a drinking problem. 

His son, Philip Kerr, declined to comment yesterday. His daughter, Gabrielle Kibble, did not return calls.

Mr Whitlam's comments occur in a television documentary, Gough Whitlam: In His Own Words, an 84-minute conversation between Mr Whitlam and Senator John Faulkner, to be shown on SBS Television on November 10. It looks at Mr Whitlam's 50 years of public life.

Senator Faulkner says: "Gough Whitlam made mistakes, some on a grand scale, but he changed Australia forever and for the
better."

Faulkner: "Are you comfortable being an icon and elder statesman?"

Whitlam: "Well, I hope this is not just because I was a martyr. The fact was I was an achiever."

 

Read more:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/kerrs-drink-problem-put-him-in-hospital-...

for an aussie republic...

Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese said the correspondence should prompt a renewed discussion about an Australian republic and that the dismissal was a "blight on our character as a nation".

"The actions of the Governor-General on the 11th of November to dismiss a government, to put himself above the Australian people, is one that reinforces the need for us to have an Australian head of state, is one that reinforces the need for Australia to stand on our own two feet," he said.

 

"The fact that we have waited 45 years for correspondence between the Queen and the Palace and the Governor-General in Australia says that there is something very wrong with our structures of government."

 

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who is also a former chair of the Australian Republican Movement, said he was surprised by the extent of the communications between Sir John and Sir Martin in the lead up to the dismissal.

"The governor-general was reporting to her [the Queen] almost like a local manager reporting to head office and seeking advice as to his options," Mr Turnbull said.

"Of course he made the final decision himself but he was getting a lot of advice on the way through.

"Until our head of state is an Australian citizen, with a loyalty only to this country, then our Constitution will not be fully achieved, in terms of giving Australia the independence and the dignity that our great nation deserves."

 

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-14/sir-john-kerr-queen-whitlam-palace-letters-released/12452616

 

 

Sack Morisson!...

 

See also:

http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/28155

 

Let's not forget that Whitlam wanted to borrow money from the "Arabs" to create beter infrastructure for Australia... The Yanks saw red. The "Arabs" were lending money at a much better rate than the US banking system. From then on, a conspiracy theory was built on the possibility of the CIA influencing Kerr in the decision to sack the Whitlam government, especially after it had quit the war in Vietnam... and the Yanks stopped buying Aussie beef.... etc...

 

See also:

http://yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/29289

 

... and Paul Keating being "nice" to Kerr after Sir John Kerr died in Sydney on April 7, 1991:

 

...

Had the Prime Minister known that he intended to deceive him and dismiss him, another course of action would have been available to him. That is the nub of Sir John Kerr’s problem with the Labor movement and those who support it, and it will last forever. It is a sad thing for him, but it is a fact.

Anyone who has made a contribution to this country is to be admired. In a personal sense, Sir John Kerr did not come from privileged circumstances, but he surmounted any difficulties in those circumstances. He was a person of substance. But, in the end, one has to follow that substance with integrity. He lacked the integrity in dealing politically with the Prime Minister and he has suffered history’s admonition as a result.

 

Read more:

https://whitlamdismissal.com/1991/04/09/keating-on-kerr.html

they knew as well as....

who knew

 

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the old biddy "did not know"..

queenie

 

She did know but did not comment?...