Ah! I do enjoy a good Pilgerism, but this last one was a bit much, I nearly spilled my Mannochmore Loch Dhu , laughing.

John Pilger wriets:

"Across the political and media elite in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died."

And in the first sentence is completely wrong. How he expects anyone to take his conspiracy theory seriously after that is beyond me. But then I do note that Arjay has turned up.

I continue to be fascinated by people who, because they don't like some fact about politics, and which they are unable to change, go on as if it doesn't exist.

There are two simple points in the Constitution that are relevant here:

1. The senate has the power to refuse supply (Section 53).

2. The Prime Minister holds office during the pleasure of the Governor-General (Section 64).

Persons who cannot understand these simple provisions should report to the nearest public school and ask to repeat grades 1 to 6.

Comments such as "the power of the upper house in the UK to refuse supply was removed a century ago" simply aren't relevant. Those interested in political history may remember that it was a major battle. Here it would require a referendum, which can only be approved by the people, and the people have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not going to amend the Constitution.

The practical benefits of the current arrangements, where a deadlock between the Houses can be broken by the Governor-General (whose only power in practice is to refer the question to the people in an election, since the replacement Prime Minister can't govern) compares very favourably with the United States, where we have seen that there is no mechanism for breaking deadlocks between the President and Congress.

The fact that the Prime Minister holds office during the pleasure of Her Majesty's representative is one reason I am an enthusiastic monarchist.

It astounds me that so many think we live in a democracy. Read John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman. He was employed by our oligarchs to bribe and con leaders of many countries to fall for their debt. They then would sell off their resources for a song to cover that debt. If all else failed assassination was the answer.

Our democracy is just a front to keep us all etherised and good debt slaves. Central Bankers run this planet. They create from nothing all the money for our Govts to function. It is created as debt. We are at a stage now whereby expoentially more debt must be created in future years to pay for present and past debt.

World debt is now 5 times the GDP of the planet. Even more scary is the gambling derivative market of 20 times the GDP of the planet.

Even James Rickards who wrote The Death of Money sees a depression coming far worse than the 1929 one. So stop believing MSM and our pollies

What is the main difference between Australians and Americans?

Both are brain-dead but Americans control most of the world while Australians control nothing, count for nothing, have no real power or influence in the world, and are servile to most every other nation on Earth (excluding FIJI).

Whitlam and Pilger, two exceptional Australians, one of a tiny handful!

"Whitlam and Pilger, two exceptional Australians, one of a tiny handful!"

Very, very true, Whitlam for all the good reasons and Pilger for the diametrical opposites.