#Kerr

SpringGnollspringgnoll
2025-11-27
SpringGnollspringgnoll
2025-11-27
2025-11-22

Attached is a short read from Professor Jenny Hocking, the person whose unrelenting work on The Dismissal led to the release of the ‘Palace Letters’ (amongst other things).

The article is worth a read.

#Auspol #TheDismissal #Whitlam #Kerr #Fraser

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/t

SpringGnollspringgnoll
2025-11-11
SpringGnollspringgnoll
2025-11-11
2025-11-11

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ 1975 Australian constitutional crisis ✧

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis culminated on 11 November when Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as prime minister and appointed Malcolm Fraser, the opposition leader, as caretaker. The Whitlam government had been rocked by scandal...

#AustralianLaborParty #Kerr #Whitlam #ALP #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Aus

Gough Whitlam (left) and Malcolm Fraser (right)
2025-11-04

#Auspol #TheDismissal #WhitlamAndFraser #Kerr #Democracy
#MaintainingMyRage #11November1975 #WeHaveMorePowerThanTheyWantUsToBelieve

i don’t know where i was when kennedy was shot — we didn’t have a tv at home, and the radio in our house was strictly controlled by mother. kennedy’s assassination probably only rated a mention at school the next day because kennedy was a catholic. as an australian of a certain age, my kennedy moment was actually a dismissal moment.

on 11 nov 1975, i was working in a public service (key-to-tape) data centre with ?maybe 200 or so other data processors, and remember being shocked and outraged that a representative of the crown could/would sack a democratically elected government. i stood up and looked around, and my fellow workers seemed unconcerned. i asked one or two if they thought the dismissal was wrong, and they shrugged.

it took a very long time for details to seep out, and even longer for me to get a sense of how the dismissal had unfolded behind the scenes, so my sense of outrage at the time was probably due to a conviction that whitlam was the best thing since sliced bread as much as it was to a matter of principle… a sense that “they” are the reason we cannot have good things, and a feeling that “they” were unbeatable.

[i have since come to rely on the whitlam years as proof the system is not as rigged as “they” want us to believe. i draw immense hope from the fact whitlam’s government revolutionised life in australia, and after 50 years of desperately trying, “they” have still not managed to completely undo what he did, or completely return our expectations to a pre-whitlam baseline]

but the frogs in slowly boiling water metaphor makes a great deal of sense, and i fear australia could too easily become the USA — indeed, might already be the USA if not for the random accidents that gave us a different history

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Nikki Savva and David Solomon were closer to the action on the day of the dismissal, and in this article, discuss the events of that day;

“On whether a dismissal could happen again, both agree that while the same powers exist today, things have now changed. Solomon says:

All of the facts are still the same. It could happen. I don’t think it is likely […] I think the psyche of all the political parties was affected by what happened on November 11 and I think that they do not want it ever to happen again. It is one of those events that must be avoided at all costs.
In Savva’s view:

It would also need people of similar character to the main figures of the time, like a Whitlam, a Kerr, a Fraser, a [Reg] Withers [Leader of the opposition in the Senate]. And do any people like that exist in parliament today or at Government House? I don’t think so.”

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imo there are few people in parliament today with whitlam’s vision, or determination to put their values before politics, and we are poorer for that.

theconversation.com/politics-w

SpringGnollspringgnoll
2025-10-05
2025-09-11

Nous sommes dans l’ère de la spectroscopie gravitationnelle ! #GW250114 confirme à ± 30% que la vibration après fusion est cohérente avec celle d’un trou noir en rotation, prédite par la #RelativitéGénérale (le « trou noir de #Kerr », du nom de son découvreur). @ligo.org @egovirgo.bsky.social

FIG. 4. Test spectroscopique de la nature de Kerr du trou noir résultant pour .
Gauche : postérieur à 90 % pour les fréquences observées du mode fondamental et de l’harmonique, comparé à la plage autorisée par le spectre de Kerr (région ombrée en noir) pour toute masse de trou noir (étendue verticale) et spin (étendue horizontale). La croix marque les valeurs de référence issues de l’analyse du signal complet.
Droite : postérieur sur la déviation  de la fréquence du premier harmonique par rapport au spectre de Kerr, avec une zone ombrée et une ligne montrant respectivement la région crédible à 90 % et la médiane. Une ligne verticale indique la prédiction de Kerr de , et une ligne horizontale montre le prior.
L’analyse pyRing (orange) commence  après ringdown (vert), ce qui explique pourquoi les postérieurs ne sont pas identiques, voir Matériel Supplémentaire [112].
Le spectre observé est cohérent avec Kerr à ±30 %.
Source: https://dcc.ligo.org/P2500421/public
scinexx - das wissensmagazinscinexx@nrw.social
2025-09-11

Gravitationswellen bestätigen Hawking und Kerr. Bisher klarstes Signal der Verschmelzung schwarzer Löcher bestätigt zwei grundlegende Theorien. #Gravitationswellen #LIGO #SchwarzeLoecher #Hawking #Kerr #Astrophysik #Kosmos
scinexx.de/news/kosmos/gravita

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