Although the recent eclipse of the Liberal-National Coalition (‘the Liberal bloc’ in Kos Samaras’ article) by One Nation in the polls, and its defeat in the Farrer by-election, are extremely gratifying for those of us who believe that ‘what’s bad for the Liberal party is good for Australia’, I wonder if something more isn’t in play. Perhaps it might be karmic justice: after all the Liberal-National Coalition is the one party in history in a Westminster system that has participated in and benefitted from a coup d’état, and has never acknowledged this fact, or apologised for it.
The illegality of ‘Dismissal’ in 1975 does not lie in Kerr’s dismissal of Whitlam as Prime Minister, but in his refusal to acknowledge the vote of no confidence by the House of Representatives in Fraser as Prime Minister. Essentially Kerr succeeded where Charles I failed in 1642 and managed to dissolve Parliament without its consent. It’s a comforting thought that such actions may have consequences, even if they only manifest many years later.
Karmic justice in the polls?
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