1
00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,600
Speaker 1: Murray Old's Ossie correspondent with us Alo maz Very good afternoon, Heather,

2
00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,320
Speaker 1: do you guys mark this day? Is this a big

3
00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,280
Speaker 1: daiy throw parties, put on hats, pops and balloons. Well,

4
00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,560
Speaker 1: it's a big day for two reasons, particularly big today

5
00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,840
Speaker 1: politically because of course, it was on this day fifty

6
00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:21,159
Speaker 1: years ago that Gough Whitlam was sacked. Anthony Albanezi his

7
00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,520
Speaker 1: whole life, he's had GoF Whitlam as his political hero.

8
00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:27,920
Speaker 1: He was twelve years old when Gough was dismissed by

9
00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,920
Speaker 1: the Governor General of the day. Politically, there was an impasse.

10
00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,800
Speaker 1: Gough Whitlam got in in nineteen seventy two with this huge,

11
00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:40,040
Speaker 1: massive wave of support and he flamed out in three years.

12
00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,360
Speaker 1: People got sick and tired of the kind of instability

13
00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,440
Speaker 1: that labor was perceived to generate. Malcolm Fraser very effective

14
00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:52,160
Speaker 1: as an opposition leader, and he persuaded the Governor General

15
00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,440
Speaker 1: of the day, Sir John Kerr, that really he was

16
00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,720
Speaker 1: blocking supply and he said this cannot go on, and

17
00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,680
Speaker 1: the Governor General moved to sack Gough. The other reason,

18
00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,440
Speaker 1: of course, today is Remembrance Day and the huge turnouts

19
00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,080
Speaker 1: all around the country. For you know, what is a

20
00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,920
Speaker 1: very significant and solemn day on the Australian calendar falls

21
00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,680
Speaker 1: eff and New Zealand. I'm sure, what do you reckon

22
00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,679
Speaker 1: every time you were reminded of what happened during the

23
00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,040
Speaker 1: goff Woodland thing. Does it kind of strengthen the case

24
00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:24,480
Speaker 1: for republicanism in Australia. I wouldn't have thought so. You know,

25
00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,440
Speaker 1: it's almost like Labour's kryptonite, to be fair. I mean,

26
00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,399
Speaker 1: if you mentioned, if you mentioned the R word around Alberaneza,

27
00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,280
Speaker 1: he'll go and run and hide in the cupboard. He

28
00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,280
Speaker 1: doesn't want any he doesn't want anything to disrupt what

29
00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,920
Speaker 1: he's looking at now. He's looking at another after this term,

30
00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,240
Speaker 1: his second term, he's looking at two more. That's the

31
00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,000
Speaker 1: scale of the task for the opposition that is just

32
00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,880
Speaker 1: riven with internal hatreds and fighting. It's horrible. Now what

33
00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,240
Speaker 1: is going going on with the neo Nazis. I mean

34
00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,720
Speaker 1: they cannot be serious about wanting to form a political party,

35
00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,840
Speaker 1: are they. These guys are freaks, They oxygen thieves as

36
00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,160
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. I mean one of the guys

37
00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,800
Speaker 1: down to Victoria, the goose down there, you know, I

38
00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,160
Speaker 1: hate immigration. With his little Adolf Hitler mustache. The moron

39
00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,680
Speaker 1: came from New Zealand, but I hate immigration. Hello idiot. Anyway,

40
00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,600
Speaker 1: up in New South Wales, these people, I think with

41
00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,760
Speaker 1: the collective IQ of about sort of room temperature. They

42
00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,200
Speaker 1: staged a big rally outside Parliament House on the weekend.

43
00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,000
Speaker 1: The only reason anyone knew was because TV cameras turned up.

44
00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,920
Speaker 1: There were sixty of them, all dressed in black with

45
00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,880
Speaker 1: an anti Jewish sign and when journo's quized them, there

46
00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,160
Speaker 1: was some guy who apparently is a member or he's

47
00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,720
Speaker 1: one of the leaders of the Nazi Hitler Youth and

48
00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,320
Speaker 1: New South Wales and he says, well, here's the thing.

49
00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,760
Speaker 1: We've looked at the electoral map in Australia and the

50
00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,000
Speaker 1: electoral rules, and New South Wales looks to be the

51
00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,880
Speaker 1: state where we're most likely to be able to form

52
00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:54,840
Speaker 1: a political party and contest elections. Now that's very very

53
00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,040
Speaker 1: much highly unlikely. But you only need seven hundred and

54
00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,280
Speaker 1: fifty members to form a legitimate political party in New

55
00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,360
Speaker 1: South Wales only five hundred down in Victoria, by the way,

56
00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,919
Speaker 1: and that of course attracts all sorts of benefits. You

57
00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,200
Speaker 1: get you know, you know, status at elections and whatnot.

58
00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,080
Speaker 1: So the new South Wales government going over time trying

59
00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,840
Speaker 1: to stop this. And of course these neo Nazis have

60
00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,160
Speaker 1: used a very famous and very patriotic Australian song by

61
00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,200
Speaker 1: Ganga Jan. You may know it Sounds then, also known

62
00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,440
Speaker 1: as This is Australia, a big hit back in eighty five.

63
00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,280
Speaker 1: But the man who wrote it forty years later, he's

64
00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,280
Speaker 1: absolutely outraged that these neo Nazis have taken it as

65
00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,800
Speaker 1: their theme and he's got lawyers chasing these blokes and

66
00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,360
Speaker 1: trying to say forget it. Come on interesting, Mars. Thank

67
00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:44,760
Speaker 1: you very much for keep an eye on that. Murray

68
00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,760
Speaker 1: Old's Australia correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive,

69
00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,360
Speaker 1: listen live to news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays,

70
00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,680
Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio