Tribune (Sydney, NSW : 1939 - 1991) Tue 25 Nov 1975 Page 2.
SYDNEY: "Make no mistake, this is a class struggle", elected Urban
Affairs Minister Uren told a Balmain rally last Saturday."
This was very obvious to the more conscious of both the
ruling class and the workers.
Mr. Uren went on to say that Kerr's action gave many in the
middle ground their first real taste of where power really lies,
and how little regard the ruling class has for its own rules when
their power base is threatened.
Mr. Uren went on to say "Who does rule Australia? Let me tell
you that it is not the parliament (if Labor is in a majority there).
"Since Labor was elected in 1972 it has become increasingly
clear to me that Parliament is powerless in so many ways ....
and the will of the people means nothing against the will of the
ruling class Power lies with those who own and control the
economic base of this country, and with the
administrative/military elite.
"In 1972-73 .... 41 per cent of total Australian company income
was earmarked for foreign owners. In recessions .... this profit
is called home to prop up the parent, so the satellite economy
suffers even more .... the interests of the foreign owners
(and members of the Australian ruling class who sell Australia
out to them) dictate the direction and form the economy will take.
The needs, aspirations and independence of the people don't rate
a mention in their deliberations."
Mr. Uren said that there weren't many of these people, but they
determined almost every facet of our lives. Last week they acted in
a way they had rarely had to act. They felt themselves under threat:
they had to reassert themselves.
They acted against the Labor government because it brought a
redistribution of income in favor of the bottom two-thirds of the
population: provided benefits foreducation, urban improvement,
health care, "instead of providing playtoys for the military establishment and
sops to big business". It had tried to gain some control over natural resources.
Tom Uren charged that the Fraser-Kerr coup was the end result of
"some plan, sometime-table, that has been in operation since at least
May of this year .... and I'll bet London to a brick that they have some
gem planned for the last week of the election campaign."
The world recession has bottomed out, he said. The downward trend
has halted in Australia, and the country will slowly ease out of the recession.
"This would shoot to pieces the capitalists' claims of Labor mismanagement
they cannot afford to have that happen."
SYDNEY: "Make no mistake, this is a class struggle", elected Urban
Affairs Minister Uren told a Balmain rally last Saturday."
This was very obvious to the more conscious of both the
ruling class and the workers.
Mr. Uren went on to say that Kerr's action gave many in the
middle ground their first real taste of where power really lies,
and how little regard the ruling class has for its own rules when
their power base is threatened.
Mr. Uren went on to say "Who does rule Australia? Let me tell
you that it is not the parliament (if Labor is in a majority there).
"Since Labor was elected in 1972 it has become increasingly
clear to me that Parliament is powerless in so many ways ....
and the will of the people means nothing against the will of the
ruling class Power lies with those who own and control the
economic base of this country, and with the
administrative/military elite.
"In 1972-73 .... 41 per cent of total Australian company income
was earmarked for foreign owners. In recessions .... this profit
is called home to prop up the parent, so the satellite economy
suffers even more .... the interests of the foreign owners
(and members of the Australian ruling class who sell Australia
out to them) dictate the direction and form the economy will take.
The needs, aspirations and independence of the people don't rate
a mention in their deliberations."
Mr. Uren said that there weren't many of these people, but they
determined almost every facet of our lives. Last week they acted in
a way they had rarely had to act. They felt themselves under threat:
they had to reassert themselves.
They acted against the Labor government because it brought a
redistribution of income in favor of the bottom two-thirds of the
population: provided benefits foreducation, urban improvement,
health care, "instead of providing playtoys for the military establishment and
sops to big business". It had tried to gain some control over natural resources.
Tom Uren charged that the Fraser-Kerr coup was the end result of
"some plan, sometime-table, that has been in operation since at least
May of this year .... and I'll bet London to a brick that they have some
gem planned for the last week of the election campaign."
The world recession has bottomed out, he said. The downward trend
has halted in Australia, and the country will slowly ease out of the recession.
"This would shoot to pieces the capitalists' claims of Labor mismanagement
they cannot afford to have that happen."
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