Comments on: the Shadow Government http://www.luckyrob.com/2008/07/the-shadow-government/ Consultant. Artist. Father. Writer. Idot. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:50:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anto http://www.luckyrob.com/2008/07/the-shadow-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4969 Anto Wed, 19 May 2010 05:55:48 +0000 http://www.luckyrob.com/?p=137#comment-4969 Oh and in an unintentional irony he now has a swimming pool in Melbourne named after him :-) "Holt is most famously commemorated by the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, a swimming pool complex in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Iris. The complex was already under construction at the time of Holt's disappearance, and since he was Malvern's local member it was named in his memory. The irony of commemorating him with a swimming pool has been the source of wry amusement to some Australians." Oh and in an unintentional irony he now has a swimming pool in Melbourne named after him :-)

“Holt is most famously commemorated by the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, a swimming pool complex in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Iris. The complex was already under construction at the time of Holt’s disappearance, and since he was Malvern’s local member it was named in his memory. The irony of commemorating him with a swimming pool has been the source of wry amusement to some Australians.”

]]> By: Anto http://www.luckyrob.com/2008/07/the-shadow-government/comment-page-1/#comment-4968 Anto Wed, 19 May 2010 05:54:15 +0000 http://www.luckyrob.com/?p=137#comment-4968 Since I've had a go at Steve Irwin in your other blog piece, here's some more political Australiana... The Whitlam dismissal - a popular conspiracy theory was that this was due in part to CIA involvement as Whitlam was considered a dangerous socialist by the US and many conservative Australians! It's never been definitively proved but keep in mind it was not long after the CIA helped get rid of Sukarno in Indonesia, it was the tail end of the Vietnam War, and they were promoting right-wing dictatorships in Latin America... this theory gets an airing in the film "The Falcon and the Snow-man" with Sean Penn... Also, we had a Prime Minister, Harold Holt disappear off near Portsea Beach (Mornington Peninsula), presumed drowned, while swimming in 1967. There are theories he met a Chinese submarine and defected but this is a bit far fetched - he either had a heart attack or otherwise drowned and big men and the grey suits (sharks) finished him off I reckon. Anto Since I’ve had a go at Steve Irwin in your other blog piece, here’s some more political Australiana…

The Whitlam dismissal – a popular conspiracy theory was that this was due in part to CIA involvement as Whitlam was considered a dangerous socialist by the US and many conservative Australians! It’s never been definitively proved but keep in mind it was not long after the CIA helped get rid of Sukarno in Indonesia, it was the tail end of the Vietnam War, and they were promoting right-wing dictatorships in Latin America… this theory gets an airing in the film “The Falcon and the Snow-man” with Sean Penn…

Also, we had a Prime Minister, Harold Holt disappear off near Portsea Beach (Mornington Peninsula), presumed drowned, while swimming in 1967. There are theories he met a Chinese submarine and defected but this is a bit far fetched – he either had a heart attack or otherwise drowned and big men and the grey suits (sharks) finished him off I reckon.

Anto

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