What Is Pine Gap?
Pine Gap (NSA codename: RAINFALL) is a US facility 18km south-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. Since 1970 it has been jointly operated by the CIA, NSA and NRO as a COMINT/SIGINT facility.
Who Was Gough Whitlam?
Gough Whitlam was the greatest Prime Minister ever elected in Australia. His legacy includes (All of this was done between 1972-75):
- Abolishing conscription (Reintroduced by the previous conservative government to funnel humans into the Vietnam war meat grinder).
- Establishing Medibank, the precursor to Medicare (Our universal healthcare system).
- Extending welfare to single-mothers and equal pay to women
- Abolishing the death penalty at the federal level.
- Passing the Family Law Act to establish the national Family Court and introduce simplified, non-punitive divorce laws.
- Establishing needs-based funding for schools which set the precedent for funding state schools with federal money.
- Opening up relations with China.
- Making university education FUCKING FREE (Briefly, the conservatives overturned it so fucking fast).
- Reducing the voting age to 18.
- Giving the ACT and NT senate representation (They are territories which are different to states because reasons).
- Replacing God Save the Queen with Advance Australia Fair as the national anthem.
- Replacing the British Honours system with the Order of Australia.
- Establishing the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and drafting the first ever federal land rights grant to first nation people.
- Establishing the National Gallery of Australia, the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Heritage Commission.
- Introducing FM fuckin radio.
- Granting PNG their independence.
Unfortunately a lot of these changes were undone by conservative governments over the years, the worst of which was free university education being repealed.
OK So Why Should We Drone Strike Pine Gap?
Gough Whitlam never got to finish his full term as PM due to an extremely fucked series of events beginning with the 1975 constitutional crisis and ending with the Governor General stepping in and dismissing Whitlam, an entirely unprecedented and extreme action. It has been alleged, and I'm very much inclined to believe, that the CIA was involved in the ousting of Gough Whitlam. Whitlam was very much opposed to both the Vietnam war and US imperialism in general. He made that clear by immediately abolishing conscription upon entering office. Further to that he had intentions to kick the US out of Pine Gap, a facility they relied upon immensely during the Vietnam war. Also I believe Whitlam wanted to nationalise the banks which would have fucking ruled but also made rich people angry.
Nevertheless, Gough Whitlam was unceremoniously ejected as PM in a wholly extreme and unprecedented fashion. I fully believe that the CIA was involved and as such I reckon that if we drone strike Pine Gap then Gough Whitlam will be resurrected and usher in a new era of wicked shit in Australia.