redandblack wrote:Hits head in frustrationTries again.
Mate, I know it's been a tough day for the Liberal Party and I have no doubt you were happy to vote for Fraser in 1975, but how that 'vindicates' a complete disregard for established convention is many steps below your usual regard for logic and reason.
Fair enough, though,
if you think the end justifies the means, I'll remember it for any further discussions between us
I don't usually, but that was a special case where so much that had been concealed came out after the 1974 election...
And it gave the people, who felt betrayed, what they wanted - a chance to exercise their vote again - could any conventions be more important than that??
A democratic resolution via a new election was the only possible solution.
Gough resisted that preferring to hang on by any means as he knew he had lost the support of the public.
During the crisis, too, we had our military intelligence people conducting "exercises" in north Queensland, based on an hypothetical military takeover of Australia.
That became public in an interview a few years later with the former head of the team. It was never revealed where the drive behind that exercise came from.
Thus any means to bring about the election and a demonstrably democratic resolution was reasonable, in retrospect.
