Gillard’s Bio
In the early 1980’s Ms. Gillard had her first introduction into politics, whilst studying law at The University of Adelaide, joining the now-defunct Australian Union of Students (AUS). In 1982, after moving to Melbourne, she was elected National Education Vice-President, and the following year, President.
During this year, the AUS was totally dominated by the extreme-left. She remained as President until early 1984 during which year, moderate Labor, Liberal and Jewish students campaigned vigorously to abolish the AUS. Ms. Gillard and her left-wing colleagues continued to defend the union until it collapsed from lack of funds as more and more students left.
Being elected to take leadership of an organisation, particularly the level of President, surely requires two things. Firstly, it requires a strong belief in what the organisation is espousing, coupled with a strong drive to advance its agenda; and secondly, the strong support of those involved, particularly that of its core leaders.
Some of the outrageous policies that the AUS adopted are detailed below:
Adopted a policy on prostitution which, in part, said Prostitution takes many forms and is not only the exchange of money for sex Prostitution in marriage is the transaction of sex in return for love, security and housekeeping.
Supported all varieties of abortion, including during late term pregnancy.
Asserted that ALL men exercise the threat of rape, ranging from subtle appeals to a woman’s mistaken sense of obligation, to direct threats, blackmail and even physical force.
Declared 1983 to be the International Year of the Lesbian, in an era when globally, issues such as the threat of nuclear conflict were at the forefront of mainstream concern.
Grudgingly conceded that heterosexual coupling was a legitimate norm on campus.
Declared that ‘All women are oppressed because they are women’.
Supported the use of self-evaluation (students marking their own work!) in preference to independent, formal assessment by qualified academics. This policy extended to school students.
Supported banning any government funding to non-government schools.
Supported infiltrating objective education programs to manipulate the curriculum, to covertly influence students’ perceptions of social order.
Read The Real Julia by Jai Martinkovits.
Three weeks before the start of the 2007 federal election campaign, the Bulletin magazine took up an issue that had the potential to create difficulty for the ALP: the radical past of its deputy leader, Julia Gillard.
RED ALERT the cover announced. An eyebrow blurb read: Julia Gillard says she has nothing to hide. Plenty disagree. So who can you trust? It was an interesting cover and raised an intriguing question.
The way The Bulletin answered the question about Julia Gillard’s radical past characterised the way much of the media had firewalled Labor’s deputy leader from the time she had been elected. Her past was a place to which they chose not to go.
A common tactic used by journalists to avoid scrutiny of Gillard’s early political life was to brand any such probing as mudslinging. The Bulletin’s profile was framed around the proposition that the knives are out as she and Kevin Rudd get set for an election campaign that promises to be the dirtiest yet.
Paul Daley, the magazine’s national affairs editor, described what the government had slung at her.
According to Daley, Gillard had withstood accusations that: Kevin Rudd was hiding her; she was deliberately barren; she had a handbag full of knives with which to stab Rudd; she had striking red hair; she had a nasal hybrid of native Welsh and adopted Australian accents; she had had a number of men in her life; Mark Latham endorsed her. All of those things, apart, perhaps, from the unfortunate deliberately barren remark made by Liberal senator Bill Heffernan, were lightweight stuff. According to a disingenuous Daley, we are supposed to call it dirt. Daley also included another accusation that the Liberals were supposed to have slung at Gillard: that she would turn Australia into some sort of Trotskyite caliphate. That, obviously, went to the heart of Gillard’s political beliefs. Since when has it been mudslinging to examine a politician’s political development?
The sound of Gillard’s voice, the colour of her hair, the suggestion that she is personally ambitious all of these things provided a smokescreen for Daley to avoid an examination of some enlightening aspects of Gillard’s political past.
In his story, Daley completely omitted any reference to Julia Gillard’s association of some ten years or more with the Socialist Forum, an organisation set up in Melbourne in the mid-1980s in the dying days of the Communist Party of Australia.
Julia Gillard held a number of positions in the Forum, served on its management committee and as it public officer.
The Socialist Forum’s communist connections are clear. The organisation was established to provide a gateway into the ALP for former Communist Party members. Long-time CPA apparatchik Bernie Taft refers to the formation of the Socialist Forum in his memoir:
Shortly after our departure from the [Communist] party, we called a meeting of people who were interested in forming the type of organisation that we proposed. Over two hundred people from different walks of life attended, and the socialist Forum was formed. Its membership was made up of a broad range of people on the Left, as well as non-aligned people with socialist commitment. The Forum promptly began to promote serious discussions about the problems facing the Left.
Gillard assumed a prominent role in the organisation. A Forum newsletter for January 1986 refers to Gillard and Mark taft as organisers.
All of this information about the Socialist Forum, the hard left causes it espoused and promoted, is on the public record. Daley referred to none of it. He reduced Gillard’s left wing associations to her past membership of the Victorian Socialist Left faction of the ALP and quoted an unidentified source who ridiculed the idea that Gillard was an agent of the Left.
Of course, creating awareness of Gillard’s radical past would have been unhelpful for Labor. It would have raised questions about the conservative branding that Rudd and his colleagues were pushing. It had the potential to create doubt about the wisdom and safety of electing the Rudd-Gillard team.
These days Gillard presents as a moderate even as conservative and gets the help of people who should know better as she does so.
Fabian Society and the ALP
The Australian Fabians as taken from their website
Famous Australian Fabians include labor Prime Ministers and Political leaders of our country. Some contemporary Australian Fabians: Gough Whitlam – Patron of the Australian Fabian Society, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan, John Cain, Jim Cairns, Don Dunstan, Neville Wran, Frank Crean, Simon Crean.
The Australian Fabians have four general aims:
1. To contribute to a renaissance of left of centre and progressive thought, by generating and disseminating ideas that are original, meet the challenge of the times, and are of high intellectual quality.
2. To contribute, by getting these ideas into the public domain, to the creation of a left of centre political culture and consensus.
3. To help create an active movement of people identifying with the left of centre and engaged in political debate.
4. To influence the ideas and policies of the Labor Party (and other parties) and Labor Governments to encourage progressive reform in practice.
Though we call ourselves a think tank, the Australian Fabians are more than this. We are based on a social and intellectual movement: the UK Fabian Society has been a central part of democratic socialist, social-democratic and Labor tradition thoughout the 20th century in Britain, and the Australian Fabians in Australia since 1947. Our output is thoroughly contemporary and relevant: by dint simply of who we are, it is organically connected to the history of the left.
Our goal is not merely (as by and large it is for other think tanks) to produce interesting ideas for the elite policy community. It is the promotion of socialist and progressive thought throughout society. We aim to change the intellectual climate of the Australia (and indeed of the wider world). We want to make broadly left of centre ways of thinking commonplace.
A crucial element of this, obviously, is to help such thought be translated into practice, particularly by government. Producing workable policies which manifest left of centre principles, and encouraging their consideration by the Australian Labor Party and by Labor governments, is therefore a crucial part of what we do. But it remains our aim to get left of centre ideas into the wider public domain. Our function in providing arenas for ordinary people to engage in intelligent discussion – in local societies and in conferences, schools and other meetings – is absolutely central to our purpose.
Labor and the Fabian Society are one in the same, I will show the Labor power brokers involved in the ACTU and Fabian Society, and I can show that The Fabians have in fact had members who were and are PM and what their objective are in Australia
“We want to make broadly left of centre ways of thinking commonplace.”
A crucial element of this, obviously, is to help such thought be translated into practice, particularly by government.” ‘This has been evident in the arrogance they showed in the BER, the NBN rollout, and the make up of the party.’
The Society consists of Socialists. It therefore aims at the establishment of a society in which equality of opportunity will be assured, and the economic power and privileges of individuals and classes abolished through the collective ownership and democratic control of the economic resources of the community. It seeks to secure these ends by the methods of political democracy.
The Society, believing in equal citizenship in the fullest sense, is open to persons irrespective of sex, race or creed, who commit themselves to its aim and purposes and undertake to promote its work. The Society shall be affiliated to the Labour Party. Its activities shall be the furtherance of socialism and the education of the public on socialist lines by the holding of meetings, lectures, discussion groups, conferences and summer schools, the promotion of research into political, economic and social problems, national and international, the publication of books, pamphlets and periodicals, and by any other appropriate method.
For example – the Internet! How appropriate they have fought so hard for the NBN, the speed of the rollout of the NBN and the failure to supply a proper Cost Benefit Analysis of this Network.
This is from the Australian Fabians website
There is a interesting article by a Senator Robert Roy on “ARE FACTIONS KILLING THE LABOR PARTY? ” This address was to the Fabian society Sydney, however it reads as if he were addressing the Labor Party itself?
http://www.fabian.org.au/91.asp
The Who’s Who of Fabian society members
*Gough Whitlam,
*Bob Hawke,
*Paul Keating,
*John Cain,
*Jim Cairns,
*Don Dunstan
*Neville Wran,
*Frank Crean
*Anthony Albanese MP, Shadow Minister for Environment &
Heritage, Shadow Minister for Water
* David Bassanese, Journalist, Australian Financial Review
* Caroline Bayliss, Acting Executive Director, Global
Sustainability, RMIT University
* Eric Beecher, CEO, Private Media Partners
* Julian Burnside QC
* The Hon Kim Carr, Shadow Minister for Housing; Urban
Development; Local Government
* Tricia Caswell, CEO, Victorian Association of Forest Industries
* Barry Cohen, former Federal Minister for Arts, Heritage and
Environment
* Greg Combet, Secretary, ACTU
* Simon Crean MP, Shadow Minister for Regional Development
* Professor Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor, The University of
Melbourne
* Julian Disney, Professor and Director of Social Justice Project,
Department of Law, University of NSW
* Stephen Duckett, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe
University
* Senator John Faulkner, former Labor Senate Leader
* Professor John Freebairn, Director of the Melbourne Institute
of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of
Melbourne
* Dr Joshua Funder, GBS Venture Partners Limited
* Dennis Glover, Associate Fellow, School of Social Sciences, La
Trobe University
* Mike Georgeff, Australia s leading expert on artificial
intelligence and successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur
* Nicholas Gruen, CEO, Lateral Economics
* Julie Hansen, former President of the VLGA
* Tony Harris, former Auditor of NSW
* Ryan Heath, speechwriter and events coordinater for Britain’s
most senior public servant, Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary
* Ashley Hogan, Historian, Senator John Faulkner’s Office
* Brian Howe, Professorial Associate, Centre for Public Policy,
The University of Melbourne
* Jim Jupp, Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies,
Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National
University
* Bill Kelty, Former ACTU Secretary and Reserve Bank board
member
* John Langmore, Professorial Fellow, Political Science
Department, The University of Melbourne
* Jenny Lewis, Senior Research Fellow, Political Science, The
University of Melbourne
* Ian Lowe AO, President, Australian Conservation Foundation
* Jenny Macklin MP, Deputy Leader of the Opposition
* Robert Manne, Professor of Politics, La Trobe University
* Ian Marsh, Professor of Public Management, Australia & New
Zealand School of Government, University of Sydney
* Dr Race Mathews, National Chairman, Australian Fabian Society
* Stephen Mayne, Business Editor, Crikey
* John McInerney, Councillor, Sydney City Council
* David McKnight, Sydney academic and author of ‘Beyond Left
and Right: New Politics and the Culture Wars’
* Alison McClelland, Associate Professor & Head of School of
Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University
* Geoff Mulgan, Director, UK Institute for Community Studies
* Barbara Norman, Deputy Chair, Australian Fabian Society &
Program Director, Environment & Planning, RMIT University
* Michael O’Connor, National Assistant Secretary, Forestry
Division, Construction Forestry, Energy & Mining Union
* Scott Rankin, Writer and Director
* Heather Ridout, CEO, Australian Industry Group
* Guy Rundle, Co-editor, Arena Magazine
* Bill Shorten, National Secretary, AWU
* Mark Spiller, Director, Planning Institute of Australia
* Wayne Swan MP, Shadow Treasurer
* Evan Thornley, National Secretary, Australian Fabian Society
and LookSmart Co-founder
* Beth Wilson, Health Services Commissioner of Victoria
* Penny Wong MP, Shadow Minister for Employment & Workforce
Participation
* Tony Wood, Origin Energy
* Professor David Yencken
*Prime Minister:Julia Gillard*
Treasurer:Wayne Swan (Fabian)*
Minister for Trade:Craig Emerson
Minister for Defence:Stephen Smith
Minister for Foreign Affairs:Kevin Rudd
Minister for Finance & Deregulation:Penny Wong (Fabian)
Minister for Immigration & Citizenship:Chris Bowen (Fabian)
Minister for Infrastructure & Transport:Anthony Albanese (Fabian)
Minister for Health & Ageing:Nicola Roxon
Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development, Local Government & Arts:Simon Crean Fabian)
Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs & Workplace Relations:Chris Evans
Minister for Broadband, Communications & the Digital Economy:Stephen Conroy
Minister for School Education, Early Childhood & Youth:Peter Garrett
Minister for Resources & Energy / Minister for Tourism:Martin Ferguson
Minister for Climate Change & Energy Efficiency:Greg Combet (Fabian)
Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs:Jenny Macklin (Fabian)
Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population & Communities:Tony Burke
Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science & Research:Kim Carr (Fabian)
Attorney-General:Robert McClelland
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry:Joe Ludwig
Minister for Human Services:Tanya Plibersek
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