Yeah, keep saying you support positions which are incredibly unpopular with the electorate, I’m sure that’ll work out great for y’all.
‘We would reverse it’: Ley writes back to Republicans over recognition of Palestine
Submitted 2 days ago by vividspecter@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
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princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I guess they didn’t get blasted enough in the last election.
Almacca@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Keep digging, Suss.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Wer’re gonna be recognising a crater at this rate
johnwicksdog@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Courting foreign influence from the opposition undermines their case and doesn’t project the sorely needed leadership from the LNP. Not a good look, Sussan Ley.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
This is straight up treasonous. Writing directly to Trump (instead of speaking to the Australian public) to say she would reverse it is a not-so-subtle plea to get America to coup Albanese like Rudd and Whitlam.
I didn’t realize she was this evil. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 days ago
How would the US “coup” Albanese? I don’t see the connection to Rudd or Whitlam.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 2 days ago
With Coalition support. The CIA and LNP can do a lot together.
HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Its been a while and I’m writing from memory so happy to have clarifications.
There is a lot of circumstantial evidence that the CIA encouraged John Kerr to dissolve parliament. The US govt definitely didn’t like Whitlam’s foreign policy and wanted him gone. John Kerr was definitely in touch with the CIA and the director of the CIA called him “our man Kerr”. It is also unprecedented before and since(unpostcidented?) for a governor general to dissolve parliament without advice from the PM nor did he seek advice from the queen. I believe, and I think it’s a not uncommon opinion among serious historians, that there was some nudging from the CIA hoping that Whitlam would be ousted before the crisis could resolve itself with Whitlam retaining leadership and that things might’ve been different had the CIA not been subtly pushing their agenda.
Gillard’s ousting I’m less familiar with and so I’m a bit lighter on the details. Again, the US definitely preferred her foreign policy stance and the party members who pushed for Rudd’s removal had ties with the US. Maybe there was some nudging going on. I don’t know enough to judge this one.
Both of these happened on a background of waning leadership of the leader and a viable, electable, alternative already in place. Ley is a joke, it would take more than a nudge from the CIA to get her in.
I’ll sign off now feeling that I’ve sufficiently annoyed both sides.