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Great Australians
Recognition of Great Australians
Tara and Peter Hogan are lobbying the government to respect in a more tangible way the contributions of great Australians, especially those that are now forgotten or never received their due credit.
Extensive research has led to the perfect group to get the ball rolling.
They are:
Keith Murdoch ('1886-'1952)
Elisabeth Murdoch ('1909-)
The Billjims ('1916-18)
The man who got the Billjims out of Gallipoli has been forgotten.
There is a way for Keith Murdoch to finallly get his deserved tangible recognition and at the same time make a contribution to a more fair dinkum Australia.
There are 2 ways Sydney residents will get a second airport and safety from a plane crash:
1) 100,000 people die, mostly children - "Terrorists" finally reply to Howard's "Us vs. Them" provocation and bring a plane down over Sydney;
2) We get together and make it happen:
"Keith Murdoch National Airport"
Howard privatized Sydney Airport. It is now headed up by his former
Cheif of Staff, Max Moore-Wilton. In the backrooms Howard has assured the new owners there will be no second airport. He informs
us that Mascot has enough capacity for 20 years and that with new technology we will have bigger planes [read as: bigger flying bombs] -
even less need for capacity... Just great John.
Every time a jumbo flies about 50m overhead think about how Keith Murdoch National Airport is about the only chance we and our children have.
Keith Murdoch - who is he? Though the name sounds familiar, he is
now unknown to the general public and falsely maligned by the literati pompous prig brigade, while his own family do nothing to defend his reputation.
It is time to give tangible recognition to the man who really did 'get our boys out of Gallipoli' (see documentary proof here). And as a consequence allowed the Billjim to reunite with their horses in Egypt and achieve something themselves that is so epochal that it still reverberates in world affairs.
By tangible we mean, "Keith Murdoch National Airport". (Just like the Americans did with Ronald Reagan National Airport to honour him.)
In naming a major landmark after Sir Keith Murdoch we as a thankful nation are giving recognition to the whole Murdoch family. In particular, look at the contribution of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch - all her philanthropic work, which continues tirelessly at age 96 - what an example she sets. And for all the knockers of Rupert, he is an Australian (at core) who mixes it with the best of them on the world stage - a true worldbeater.
You may strongly disagree with the politics of the Murdochs. But their positive deeds hold water. If you care about the importance of giving long overdue recognition to great Australians and a safer Sydney - become a supporter of the Keith Murdoch National Airport Project.
If you can help in some other way see contact details below.
Tara & Peter Hogan
Contents
* How Keith Murdoch got our boys out of Gallipoli
Here's some of our correspondence so far:
* Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
* Prime Minister John Howard - snubs the Murdochs. Very cocky considering Rupert controls 70% of Australia's press.
Melbourne Snubs Favourite Son
Initially the strategy was to try to get Keith Murdoch tangible recognition in his home city of Melbourne. Then when Melboune snubbed its favourite son, it was a natural progression to go Federal and to Sydney and the need for a second airport, which would in effect be a truly National Airport.
* Keith Murdoch is being snubbed by the Victorian government - Premier Steve Bracks and Melbourne Lord Mayor John So. But get this for an amazing coincidence - within weeks of my confirming the snub of her husband to Dame Elisabeth Murdoch at Cruden Farm, and at the age of 96, after decades, more than half a century of philanthropic work in Melbourne, she is suddenly awarded "Victorian of the Year". And you will have noticed the shared empathy with the Billjim / Australian Light Horse - 'they' even dug up someone connected to the Light Horse, a Sgt Gary Chandler, and awarded him Local Achiever of the Year. Of course it has nothing to with the efforts of your fellow pleb, Peter Hogan (who, though grew up in Sydney, was born in Geelong!) to get proper recognition for the Murdoch family for their contribution to Australian society.
* and even by the newspaper Keith Murdoch built - here's an email from Peter Blunden, editor of the Herald Sun. Blunden dodges this issue. His excuse is that Melbourne's No 1 paper can't give its defacto founder support because it might be seen as bias.
What's the big deal, you just say at the top of the article "of course we are owned by Rupert Murdoch, but the historical facts are there - Keith Murdoch has the same rights to the Herald Sun's tangible support as every other Australian who performs such epochal deeds".
The readers are not stupid they know there are lots of stories that are in line with the Murdoch ideology, they still get printed - it's whether or not the reader thinks there is merit.
So there's the rub. A non-Murdoch newspaper won't support this great Australian because they hate the Murdochs. A Murdoch newspaper won't support a great Australian (who made their pay packets possible) because it might upset the people who hate the Murdochs.
End result - this is one of those rare stories which cannot be reported in any newspaper!
Other politicians have been approached, including:
- Opposition Leader Kim Beazley;
- Then NSW Premier Bob Carr;
- some local (we live near Mascot Airport) members of Parliament who are doing nothing about the planes / bombs fying overhead - Robert McClelland (Federal Member for Barton) and Cherie Burton (State Member for Kogarah and Bob Carr's parliamentary secretary);
- and Victoria Opposition Leader Robert Doyle.
All snubbed Keith Murdoch.
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