This Scotsman absolutely adores Australia, I had so many good times in that amazing country. I cannae think of a more fair minded decent people, especially the wonderful people of Parks when I worked there in 1994. When Australians say I'll give you a fair go mate they really mean it. Heart felt love for a wonderful people & a special country, you are loved. 🏴🇦🇺❤️
@@johnball3634 I think you'll find it is the Labor state governments screwing things up philosophically and economically. I have not seen any conservatives push mandatory masks, vaccines or what is tantamount to Keating's "Australia Card". In fact the Prime Minister stated clearly that vaccines will not me mandated by the Federal Government department of health. It's clearly written on the front page of their website. Civil liberty attacks and human rights abuses have never been the domain of conservatives. It has always come from the socialists/radicals. Every. Single. Time.
Like many here I still find Gough holds my full attention in any of his interviews. Highly intelligent combined with amusing wit and vast knowledge. On a segway involving more comment . No I am not acard carrying supporter of the ALP.When watching this I realise that is Australian Labor Prime Ministers who hold far greater respect and Admiration in history than any of the conservatives. And looking back its easy to see why.I was a child when Robert Menzies was PM and I can acknowledge he achieved some good things. Yet look at what leaders the LNP have thrown up since the 1960s through to the present deterioration of any real intelligence a complete lack of vision no empathy for the vulnerable in society highly untrustworthy no proper regard for the working of Parliament with a self interest and greed factor rife among Morrison and conservative government. I would like to add that I think as modern history unfolds another Labor PM Julia Gillardwill carry far greater respect than any of the PMs the conservatives over the last few years.Of course She was hounded daily by the Murdoch Press which didn't help
Are you serious he openly declared wanting Australia to become a Republic. That’s treason! You have absolutely no idea what your ANZACS left for us in that Shrine of Remembrance! They left a Kingdom and the wealth for us but we let the money lenders into the temple. Didn’t you hear what they were saying Oxford ‘the club’ Hawke a Fabian. FFS go listen again.
@@QuantumResonanceHealing Well then what does John Howard organising a referendum, to determine if Australia was to become a Republic! Treason, do you actually know what treason is! Some how I don't think so! Oxbridge is a Club in Britain you are almost no one unless you have attended either. My great uncle was at Gallipoli, it wasn't according to him as being for King and Country, it was the adventure, and that they were told it would probably over before they got there!
tradie 4theladies you have absolutely no idea what the ANZACS left for us. We are now witnessing an Administration Government that does NOT make laws to benefit the Australian people we are subject to usufruct. Whitlam shut down the seat of Parliament and then they set up their fraudulent Australian Government. Why don’t they refer to us as the Commonwealth of Australia? What the hell even is Australian Government?
This information below is from a friend who knows more in this topic and the treason that has occurred in this country:- You should look into why Gough Whitlam couldnt wait until the opening of Parliament in May 1973. He forced a sitting before Christmas in what is known as a DUUMVERITE PARLIAMENT after a DISSOLVED parliament. How did a DISSOLVE of a Parliament occur. And how did it allow a NEW ENTITY of "Australia" to replace the Seat of Government of the "Commonwealth of Australia" as per Section 125 and the Preamble. They forced this at Christmas. After forcing a whole government to vacate.
@@QuantumResonanceHealing : The ANZACs were poor Australian lads used as cannon fodder for that buffoon, Churchill, who sent them to their deaths on his strategic folly. Since we first became a colony Australia has been treated as a servile lapdog by one imperial master after another... and from the Boer War to the illegal invasion of Iraq, our men and women have been used as sacrificial lambs on the altar of our foreign master's expansionist wars. That, my dear, is nothing to be proud of. Whitlam was a visionary and a maverick who believed it was long past time that we became a sovereign nation in our own right and beholden to no foreign master or monarchy. May the great man rest in peace and may we long remember his name and legacy.
I write this at a little after 11.00pm on 21st July, 2024, some five years after the passing of Clive James. He is *sorely missed* but watching this again I still got a hearty chuckle from Clive's opening lines. *RIP Clive James,* we will never see your like again and therein lies the pity.
Trevor Trevalgen: Thank you. thank you, THANK YOU for uploading this absolute CLASSIC piece of Clive James. As a satirist, Clive James put Max Gillies and others well in the shade. Sadly Clive is near death if not already deceased. Kerry O'Brien was the last to interview him. If dead, the world is MUCH THE POORER for his passing, but we can still enjoy his razor-sharp wit through this upload.
I used to love watching Saturday Night Clive on ABC years ago, he could really crack me up. Saturday nights on ABC with The Bill and Clive James.... Who'd even bother going out!
I love the part where Gough Whitlam says, if I had the job I would do it every bit as well as anybody else who's had it.... nudge, nudge, wink, wink. He was a very funny man.
Thank you to the late and great Clive James. RIP 🙏😎 Still miss him on television. If this was made now for TV it would be edited for political correctness. The three Australian males were a delight and so refreshingly honest and fun.
"[Murdoch] He is a great Australian in the sense that Attila was a great Hun..." Geoffrey probably had no idea at this time how much more damage Murdoch would do to the world than Attila ever had.
What "damage" has he done? Present a non-progressive view? Yes, we should pull out his fingernails, send him to Guantanamo and waterboard him, shouldn't we?
@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen lol. Let me get this straight, you were watching the ABC one day and they said Rupert Murdoch is a robber baron and you think that's a fait acompli? So the government know more than us? Is that what is happening here?
@@richrockefeller3331 Either you are a troll or you lack the ability to properly connect with reality. Either way there is nothing to gain in any further discussion.
As a monolith of a bygone era….that should be 43 minutes and 11 seconds of compulsory viewing for every secondary school student and more importantly elected official in the country ( and they MUST pass the assessment before progressing. Taught by skilled experts to dissect and analyse every word well chosen, every nuance within the divergent opinions expressed in a measured, articulate and precise fashion. I am proud to be Australian!!
Great minds discuss ideas. Australia resisted the change from constitutional monarchy to republic for a few quite simple reasons and one or two complex ones. The government of the day was pro-monarchy, but the referendum was geared for a negative, or anti-, response. Beyond that, the notion of a "president" confused people. They attached non-existent power to the title, believing that a two-thirds parliamentary majority did not give a president a mandate to govern. This despite the fact that an Australian president would not govern, they would simply be, effectively, a governor-general with a new title. Also despite the fact that the Prime Minister runs the government and they don't even need a two-thirds majority to run it. Technically they don't even need 50-50. If there had been an existing working model of a republic almost identical to Australia's system, we might be a republic now. But the three best models, the United States, Ireland and France, all had crucial differences. Ireland was and is the closest, but their president is popularly elected and lacks the reserve power of a vice-regal.
Unfortunately Clive was lost on the intellect of Whitlam. So many opportunities to deepen the discourse and probe but he didn't go there and just brought it back to a rather simple fire side chat. 26:23 for example and 34:32 Then there's 36:28 and Whitlam at his best!
Clive James says that the republic debate is an intellectual exercise. This is unfair by Mr James. It is not more an intellectual exercise any more than any other debate on any area of pubic policy or topic of national interest.
I know, I thought that this charge made by Clive James was most unjust in quashing a record of a debate that could have been enlightening to future generations, which now we can't have for the sake of a few canned laughter one-liners - - Prompting Gough to take out the delightful story of the palace Corgis to us, at least keeping the humour within the limits of the topic of royalty and teaching us a higher point in a lower, more vulgar and easy to understand anecdotal way.
Extremely interesting. Nothing against the former p.m. but it’s obvious he suffered from intellectual snobbery. And that was his downfall. As his wife told him when the cabinet ministers came into announce the disillusion. “You should’ve slapped him!”
Hail Gough. Hail Geoffrey. Clive was shown up as a bit of a lightweight in such company. Gough hates small talk, but his humour always hits the mark sharply and deeply. Geoffrey has a superb natural sense of intelligence and humour but Clive's is so forced (and scripted). It was a mistake for 2 such contrary guests to be put together.
A remarkable and poignant interview. Whilst James' verbal portrature can be brilliant, his paltry defense of Australia remaining a monarchy is classically shot down by both of his fantastically intelligent guests. The fact that it was recorded 12 years prior to the first Australian referendum on becoming a republic provides an insight into how apathetic and misguided a lot of Australian people were, and still are!
Took a generation for Australia to recover (economically and financially) from Gough and his government. Australia is still suffering from his signing of the The Lima Agreement on Tariffs in 1975. I voted for him. In retrospect , I was very naive, very very very naive... Just saying...
@@kingy002 Naturally. You're a leftist. You attack anybody who criticises your tyrannical ideology. That's right - tyrannical. Naming my goat Gough though, was fn hilarious. It really burned you. Didn't it? Good.
Whitlam loved the sound of his own voice, intelligent man but what a huge ego. Australia was lucky to come out of his Prime Minister-ship the way it did, Whitlam getting smashed in the 1978 election said it all, we had all had enough.
Frivolous vacuous rubbish,,,fancy talking about the Queens corgis,,,cringe making, Is James hoping for a knighthood. The archetypal Aussie joker,,,take it easy mate,,,dont get serious mate,,,have a larf mate, The colonial playing the clown,,as bad as that wretched Barry Humphries, Gosh,,,isJames really wearing The Garrick Club tie
@@kingy002 not for a second. For a start my opinion of him has been that low for over 50 years that I wouldn’t value his opinion at all. Secondly the prick was so full of his own self importance I am sure he would have been far too busy admiring himself to formulate any opinion on anyone else. To be fair though, I have warmed to him slightly since he died.
Please produce the evidence to substantiate your claim. Could you please also provide evidence of your credentials for me to ascertain as to whether you know what you are talking about, and as to whether I should give your comment any credence.