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To: PeterFinn

She fired the prime minister of Australia about 20 years ago...a guy named Whitlam I think.


154 posted on 02/22/2005 2:34:26 PM PST by Edmund Burke
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To: Edmund Burke; PeterFinn
She fired the prime minister of Australia about 20 years ago...a guy named Whitlam I think.

That's what socialists always say.

Reality, Whitlam was dismissed by only person with the constituional power to do so: The Governor General of Australia

The Queen of Australia has the power to dismiss the G-G, but not the PM.

And at the time, when the socialists suddenly developed monarchial devotion and were talking about appealing to to the Queen, word came unofficaily from Buck House, that Her Maj might not be that easy to locate quickly.

161 posted on 02/22/2005 2:48:48 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free")
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To: Edmund Burke

I hear she was quite surprised that she had done so, upon waking up the next day.


223 posted on 02/22/2005 9:03:59 PM PST by GoLightly
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