Cross posted from New Zeal Blog
Australia has its first female Prime minister “Red Julia” Gillard.
Often touted as a moderate, or even to the “right” by Australian Labor Party standards, she is unfortunately, anything but.
Gillard is a member of the socialist Australian Fabian Society, joining through her membership in an even more left organization – a fact she has been very cagey about.
In the run-up to the 2007 Australian elections, then ALP deputy leader Gillard was the centre of controversy, after then Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello exposed her past ties to to a Communist Party of Australia linked organisation, Socialist Forum.
Initially Gillard admitted her association, but played it down.
Here’s part of a 17th October Lateline interview with ABC journalist Tony Jones
TONY JONES: Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
JULIA GILLARD: (Laughs) Tony, I think that question shows how silly all of this is getting, though I suspect in this interview, probably the Howard Government would think you’re the dangerous radical. After all, I’m only from the Labor Party, you’re from the ABC.
TONY JONES: Well look, seriously, Peter Costello has thrown this out. Let’s deal with it properly. What’s the Socialist Forum? Were you an organiser for it? And when did that happen, if you were?
JULIA GILLARD: Tony, it’s 2007 and I’m a 46-year-old woman. What Peter Costello is referring to is more than 20 years ago when I was in my 20s. I was a full-time university student and I had a part-time job for an organisation called Socialist Forum, which was a sort of debating society. It ultimately amalgamated with the Fabian society, which of course is a long-running ideas and debating group in Australian politics and indeed in British politics before Australian politics. I’ve worked in the cleric and administrative work.
TONY JONES: It wasn’t a front organisation for Communists?
JULIA GILLARD: Certainly not. It was an organisation where people who identified themselves as progressives, some in the Labor Party, some outside the Labor Party, would come together and would talk about ideas. I did clerical and administrative work, Tony. This is so long ago. It’s the days before modern computers and the internet, in the days where if you wanted to put out a meeting notice to people you wouldn’t send an email, you’d get out an envelope and put it in your IBM electric typewriter and type up the address and then get the next one. That’s the sort of thing I used to do.
Julia Gillard’s vagueness with Tony Jones is surprising, as a week before the Sunday Herald Sun’s Lincoln Wright had published this story on News.com.au
Scrapping the ANZUS treaty, twinning Melbourne with Leningrad and introducing a super-tax on the rich were among radical policies devised or backed by Julia Gillard as a student activist.
Labor’s deputy leader was a key figure in a socialist group that pushed radical policies and social agendas in the 1980s and early ’90s.
Founded in 1984 as a pressure group within the ALP, the Socialist Forum also wanted to sever Australia’s alliance with the US, remove the spy base at Pine Gap, introduce death duties and redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor.
The Sunday Herald Sun has gained access to the forum’s archive – held in the Baillieu Library at the University of Melbourne.
The archive contains material revealing the radical past of Ms Gillard, including her links to former members of the Communist Party of Australia.
Ms Gillard, who could be Australia’s next deputy prime minister, was on the management committee of the forum for many years. She acted as its public officer, secretary, and legal adviser on the drafting of its constitution.
Her signature is on liquor licence applications for the forum’s social events, such as theatre nights.
In a pamphlet from the mid-1980s, Ms Gillard describes herself as a “socialist and a feminist” and someone who joined the ALP at 16.
“Contrary to what may have been suggested, Socialist Forum is not a secret organisation nor is it a sub-caucus with the Socialist Left,” Ms Gillard says in the pamphlet.
“The members of the forum are drawn from varied backgrounds. Around 45 of the forum’s members left the Communist Party of Australia in the division of a year ago and about 80 are members of the ALP. The largest group are not members of any political party.”
The 200-plus member forum sought to influence Bob Hawke’s Labor government, especially on foreign and economic policy, through the free discussion of ideas.
One key document is the 1985 “Pine Gap – Planning a Strategy”, drafted by Philip Hind, who recommends a long-term policy of abrogating the ANZUS Treaty, removing Pine Gap and eventually closing all US bases.
Mr Hind visited the former Soviet Union and came back praising the reforms of president Mikhail Gorbachev. He recommended stronger ties with the USSR, including making Melbourne a sister city of Leningrad (now St Petersburg).
The archive also reveals the forum’s debate over tax policy was based on a Communist Party tax pamphlet titled “A Case for Radical Tax Reform”.
“We argue that there is only one effective way to reform the tax system, by a sweeping redistribution of the tax burden which now hits hardest at low and middle-income earners,” the pamphlet says.
In reality Socialist Forum was almost wholly a vehicle for former leaders of the Communist Party. I quote Australian Marxist-Leninist paper Green Left Weekly from an article from 30th November 1994 on late Communist Party of Australia leader Bernie Taft.
The end was in sight by the early ’80s, and Taft, most of the Victorian leadership and a quarter of the CPA National Committee departed to form Socialist Forum, an ALP ginger group.
Social Action Australia, claims that Socialist Forum was, not a split in the Communist Party, but a deliberate communist attempt to infiltrate the ALP, in response to Catholic aligned Labor “rightists” moving back into the party.
Left-wing acquiescence for the re-entry of the Grouper unions into the ALP in 1984 resulted in the Victorian branch of the CPA being allowed to enter the ALP en masse and consequently to form an inner party organisation called ‘Socialist Forum’. This organisation was led by the former communist Victorian leader, Bernie Taft, who had adhered to the strategy formulated by the influential Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramasci. Gramasci’s strategy envisaged that power transformation could be facilitated through communists gaining control of the levers of power: i.e. Marxist infiltration of trade unions, educational facilities, cultural associations and political parties.
Gillard came semi-clean about her long term involvement in Socialist Forum in a 23rd October interview with Melbourne radio station 3AW, now unfortunately scrubbed.
JULIA GILLARD: I’ve been predominantly asked about the time I worked there and so I’ve talked about that, I’ve answered all of those questions. What happened is I worked there for a period of time when I was at university. I then finished my university career and moved into my legal career. To do that, I did the course you could do instead of being an article clerk, Leo Cousins; that was a full time course and to support myself through it I waitressed three nights a week. And then I went and got a job at Slater and Gordon, worked pretty hard there, made partner in three years. So whilst I kept a membership of Socialist Forum, I sort of drifted out of active involvement with it. So yes, I would have attended the occasional meeting, but…
NEIL MITCHELL: When would you last have gone to a meeting?
JULIA GILLARD: Oh, look I really couldn’t tell you that, honestly Neil but a very long time ago. In the sense that as my legal career got more and more intense, as a partner I didn’t have time left over for other things, so…
NEIL MITCHELL: So were you on the Management Committee until 1994 at least?
JULIA GILLARD: I would’ve been. I mean, certainly the records show that I would’ve stayed on the management committee. But Neil, this is a voluntary organisation; a couple of hundred members. Once you’re on the management committee of something like that it can be hard to get off because no one wants to step up and take your place!
NEIL MITCHELL: Did you ever resign? Did you ever resign from the Socialist Forum?
JULIA GILLARD: No, it petered out, what…
NEIL MITCHELL: Well, it sort of became the Fabian Society, didn’t it?
JULIA GILLARD: Yeah, what happened is, its membership went into decline – it was only ever a very small thing. You know, its membership went into decline. It entered an arrangement with the Fabian Society and what was then the Evatt Foundation in Victoria which was also a bit of an ideas think tank. Entered an arrangement to share offices and share costs and all the rest of it. That happened in 1997, I think. And sort of slowly after that the Forum petered out. And now…
NEIL MITCHELL: Did you…
JULIA GILLARD: …people who want to join that sort of thing join the Fabian Society.
NEIL MITCHELL: So are you a member of the Fabian Society?
JULIA GILLARD: Yes I am.
NEIL MITCHELL: And what, you just sort of went from Socialist Forum to Fabian Society?
JULIA GILLARD: I hold a membership of the Fabian Society, I do support people getting together and talking about ideas. I think that’s all to the good.
NEIL MITCHELL: Mmm.
JULIA GILLARD: I, obviously, with all my responsibilities am not a regular attendee at Fabian Society events…
NEIL MITCHELL: Sure.
JULIA GILLARD: They generously invited me to address their recent dinner which I did.
The parliamentary register of interests states that Julia Gillard remained a member of Socialist Forum from 1998-2002, after which the group merged with the Fabian Society.
Read Julia Gillard’s August 31 2007 speech to the Inaugural Fabian Society Annual Dinner in Melbourne here
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The Real Julia Gillard:
Julia Gillard was educated at ‘Mitcham Demonstration School’ in Adelaide. Brad Boyd, Deputy head at this school, claims that this is what made her what she is today. The history of education in Adelaide is interesting, with a very heavy Froebelian influence, and having been constructed in what we call the ‘John Adam St Gang’ in London (also called the ‘Adelphi Planners’) who set up colonies in NZ and Canada, as well as Australia and elsewhere. To read more about the influence of the Froebel gifts and the ‘architecture of the mind’, I suggest people go to the ‘lifeinthemixtalk’ website:
Froebel: http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=15604
Gillard: http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=16237
John Adam St Gang: http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=3305
Considering that Tony Abbott supports a Constitutional Monarchy, we have both Gillard and Abbott as tools of the John Adam St Gang, the network centre of the British Empire, which never went away.
What are time bombs of Australia democratic society?
The historical hung parliament demonstrated the big gap inequality society between the groups get highest pay by talk fest used mouth work, the groups get lowest pay by hands work?
Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?
1. Poverty will not be phase out if no fairer resources to share;
2. Illness will not be reducing if no preventive measurement in real action;
3. Agriculture will not be revitalize if urbanization continuing its path;
4. Housing affordability will not be reach for young generation if government continues cashing from young generation debt by eating out the whole cake of education export revenue without plough back;
5. Manufacture industry will shrink smaller and smaller if no new elements there to power up to survive;
6. Employability will not in the sustainable mode for so long as manufacture and agriculture not going to boost.
Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)
What are time bombs of Australia democratic society?
The Australia historical hung parliament demonstrated the big gap of inequality society between the small educated elite groups who get highest pay by talk feast used mouth work controlling live essential resources of the country in every social platforms against the biggest less educated groups who get lowest pay by hands work squeezed by discriminative policies that sucking live blood from poor/less wealth off?
Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?
1. Poverty will not be phase out if no fairer resources to share;
2. Illness will not be reducing if no preventive measurement in real action;
3. Agriculture will not be revitalize if urbanization continuing its path;
4. Housing affordability will not be reach for young generation if government continues cashing from young generation debt by eating out the whole cake of education export revenue without plough back;
5. Manufacture industry will shrink smaller and smaller if no new elements there to power up to survive;
6. Employability will not in the sustainable mode for so long as manufacture and agriculture not going to boost.
Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)
What democratic societies should learn lessen from Australia election 2010:
1. What productive action Gillard Labor government 5 billions to UN buys ousted PM Kevin Rudd’s face?
Voter’s pains did not link to high income Politicians and Bureaucracy.
The Australia historical hung parliament demonstrated the big gap of inequality society between the small educated elite groups who get highest pay by talk feast used mouth work controlling live essential resources of the country in every social platforms against the biggest less educated groups who get lowest pay by hands work squeezed by discriminative policies that sucking live blood from individual poor/less wealth off?
Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?
1. Poverty will not be phase out if no fairer resources to share;
2. Illness will not be reducing if no preventive measurement in real action;
3. Agriculture will not be revitalize if urbanization continuing its path;
4. Housing affordability will not be reach for young generation if government continues cashing from young generation debt by eating out the whole cake of education export revenue without plough back;
5. Manufacture industry will shrink smaller and smaller if no new elements there to power up to survive;
6. Employability will not in the sustainable mode for so long as manufacture and agriculture not going to boost.
Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)
What democratic societies should learn lessen from Australia election 2010:
1. What voters crying for reforms not just parliament, but for all department?
Voter’s pains did not link to high income Politicians and Bureaucracy.
The Australia historical hung parliament demonstrated the big gap of inequality society between the small educated elite groups who get highest pay by talk feast used mouth work controlling live essential resources of the country in every social platforms against the biggest less educated groups who get lowest pay by hands work squeezed by discriminative policies that sucking live blood from individual poor/less wealth off?
Voters’ voices do not hear?
Voters’ pains do not ease?
Voters’ cries do not care?
Voter is crying for department reforms over 70 years that resulting a 2010 Hung Parliament?
An iceberg example of voter’s crying:
“……it seem to me there was an unfair to treat me when the merit of “Claim for Disability Support Pension or Sickness Allowance” form in detail clearly defy 15 hours classify the cut off point for acceptance, when comparing to my early assessment completed in June this year that it has the merit less than 8 hours (0-7) work capacity due to my long term medical impairment since an injury occurred in 2005”…….
It was disappointing where the push of Parliament reform that mainly to brink good news to all MPs by the individual MPs during this year historical hung parliament in 70 years, and the reform did not including all Government Departments where it would directly brink good actions to all voters/or people?
Ma kee wai
(Member of Inventor Association Queensland since 1993)
“AUSSIES wanna KISS” (Keep It Simple Stupid)
A new book is a revealing read that opens everyone’s eyes to pursue a better Australia, questioning – Liberal, Labor, Greens or Democrats, Republic ….. or none of them!
We all know something’s wrong. Australians and citizens in other democratic countries question why we have so many taxes while new and even higher taxes are being introduced. Government out sources most of its responsibilities to profit-generating businesses, then sells off our vital utilities of water, roads and power and deregulates big business – creating a conflict of interest. There are never any relevant referendums placed before the people, then adverse legislation is passed into law. Laws that do not protect the best interests of the people, instead damage them and leave the people without legal recourse. Poor “economic conditions and high interest” cause more than 50% of bankruptcies. Government dictates the economy and interest from overseas lenders has never been so low. The rising cost of living is misrepresented as inflationary, warranting rising interest rates to penalise homebuyers. Farmers are going broke. Our manufacturing industries have shuffled off to Asia while governments allow our land and assets to be sold off to overseas interests. Yet they boast about high exports. Progress and improvements are impeded by government over-regulation in inappropriate areas, while they fail to regulate in areas that need regulation. Is this Government incompetence or intended?
If the political “party system” is so effective, why did the Independent Members of Parliament obtain the balance of power at the 2010 Federal election? People are tired of wrongfully accepting unaccountable mismanagement as the norm. They’re tired of willful and systemic corruption, poor priorities and perversions to constructive progress in the pursuit of political parties’ financial and philosophical agendas, at all levels of government. This has been cultivated under a barrage of bureaucracy, impractical and unfair legislations where billions of dollars have and continue to be wasted in time, resources and opportunities. Australians from all walks of life are disturbed by rhetoric and spin from governments who have derailed the State and Federal Constitutions with adverse legislation, while Australians resentfully suffer from the inequality, complacency, and injustice dished out to them.
Aussies appreciate and desperately want to grasp opportunities to Advance Australia for the benefit of every Australian, now and for the future. They want transparency, accountability and a common sense Government operating for them – not just the privileged few. In her newly published book, AUSSIES wanna KISS, author Rachel Emmes gives Aussies an eye-opening read that unveils answers to questions about the real story behind Australia’s economy, government, bureaucracy, and more. Alarming “Effects and their Causes” behind what is damaging the lives of Australians, Americans and people living in other democracies and how this can be turned around. She says, “Many of the concepts and ideas are not unique and are in fact timeless, proven methods. Common sense concepts which the majority of Australians want to see implemented and achieved by a government working for us”.
About the Author: Rachel Emmes is an accomplished businesswoman. As the managing director of a major specialty franchise chain and other business activities, she has endured most positive and negative facets of business and has competed successfully with the banking industry. Due to the inequality of bargaining power between large and small business, she became proactive in establishing an association known as ‘Victims of the State Bank of NSW’, assisting farmers and business owners. Rachel provided submissions, published in the report “Finding a Balance of Fair Trading” conducted by House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, which resulted in amendments to banking practices being initiated.
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