{"id":25690,"date":"2022-02-16T18:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T10:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/?p=25690"},"modified":"2024-09-20T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:56:04","slug":"bob-a-santamaria-and-his-influence-on-the-sda-by-oscar-wobbly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/bob-a-santamaria-and-his-influence-on-the-sda-by-oscar-wobbly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Augustine Santamaria and his influence on Australian trade unionism (in particular the SDA) &#8211; by Oscar Wobbly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the first part of my 4 part series on the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association SDA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sda.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees&#8217; Association SDA<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">If you&#8217;re going to talk about the SDA you need to understand the man who reshaped the organisation in his own image.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">B.A Santamaria is one of the most influential people in union history.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">He was also a fascist.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"B.A. Santamaria and The Movement\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UMceNPNZLZk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">So why am I calling him a fascist?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He explicitly defended Fascism in his 1934 masters thesis<\/span> &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Italy changes shirts: the origins of Italian Fascism\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/italy-changes-shirts-the-origins-of-italian-fascism\/oclc\/223289469#borrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy changes shirts: the origins of Italian Fascism<\/a><\/span>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">He also defended Mussolini and Franco in an infamous debate at Melbourne Uni. <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;By now, a young Bob Santamaria had understood politics to be his calling, and an activity for which he possessed many talents. He was extremely lucky to have been born in Australia, where the Labor Party still had a home for a Catholic right. Had he been elsewhere, Bob Santamaria would undoubtedly have become a fascist \u2014 a fact attested to by his defence of Franco in a famous debate at Melbourne University, and by an honours thesis that was an approving study of Italian fascism, something that has been of enormous embarrassment to his supporters ever since.&#8221; &#8211;<\/span><\/em> <a title=\"Rundle: how B.A. Santamaria shaped post-war Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2015\/08\/21\/rundle-how-b-a-santamaria-shaped-post-war-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rundle: how B.A. Santamaria shaped post-war Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2015\/08\/21\/rundle-how-b-a-santamaria-shaped-post-war-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25705 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BA-Santamaria.jpg?resize=862%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BA-Santamaria.jpg 862w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BA-Santamaria-480x148.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 862px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s Santamaria linking his project to fascism in his autobiography. Fascism is built into the core of his ideology.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">He calls it anticommunism but let&#8217;s be 100% clear, Franco was a fascist dictator, backed by Mussolini and Hitler who killed hundreds of thousands of people.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Without the passionate commitment derived from issues fought over during the Spanish Civil War, the long fight against communist influences within Australian Labour, the formation of the Movement, and later the Industrial groups is incomprehensible.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you thought he mellowed with age, think again. Here&#8217;s a Catholic priest talking about how Santamaria helped right wing dictatorships and their death squads indentify human rights activists<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Many Catholics were dismayed that Santamaria continued to interpret overseas events so rigidly with his preoccupation with communism. In the struggle for human rights in South East Asia, he repeatedly sided with authoritarian regimes&#8230; he attacked many human rights campaigners, like Father Brian Gore, as communists&#8230; My Redemptorist colleagues in the Philippines were very disturbed that he sometimes denounced individuals by name, endangering their lives as they could then be targeted by death squads&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Costar and Strangio,2004 &#8220;B.A Santamaria, True Believer?&#8221; Australian history 1.2<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;In May 6, 1983, he was arrested along with two other priests, Fr. Brian Gore, an Australian, Fr. Vicente Dangan, a Filipino and six lay workers \u2013 the so-called &#8220;Negros Nine&#8221;, for the murders of Mayor Pablo Sola of Kabankalan and four companions. The priests where held under house arrest for eight months but &#8220;escaped&#8221; to prison in Bacolod City, the provincial capital, where they felt they would be safer.<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The case received widespread publicity in Ireland and Australia, the home of one of the co-accused priests, Fr. Brian Gore. Charlie Bird interviewed Fr. O&#8217;Brien in his overcrowded prison cell on RTE TV. When Ronald Reagan visited Ireland in 1984, he was asked on Irish TV how he could help the missionary priest&#8217;s situation. A phone call the next day from the Reagan administration to Ferdinand Marcos resulted in Marcos offering a pardon to Fr. O&#8217;Brien and his co-accused.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a title=\"Wikipedia Niall O'Brien (Columban missionary priest)\" href=\"https:\/\/en-academic.com\/dic.nsf\/enwiki\/3203485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Source<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;margin-top: &#8221;20px&#8221;;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">I really want to you to remember this when we talk about the DLP split next week.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The leader of the ALP was Doc Evatt, a social democrat who had the audacity of opposing Menzies ban on the CPA and interning every radical in the country.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;&#8230;a steelworkers\u2019 strike in the Sydney docks caused a group of current and ex-Trotskyists (including a future governor-general John Kerr) to mount a challenge to the CPA-led union (which was, erm, somewhat less than scrupulous in its electoral methods) and pretty much opening the portal whereby the CIA and its precursors entered Australian politics &#8211; all of it culminating in an attempt to ban the Communist Party (and anyone deemed a communist, i.e. any militant leftist) and intern them in camps. The High Court case by the CPA against this was run by \u2026 Doc Evatt, ALP leader, and a former High Court judge. When the law was struck down, Menzies made it a referendum issue, which he (narrowly) lost. <\/span><\/span><\/em><a title=\"Rundle: how B.A. Santamaria shaped post-war Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2015\/08\/21\/rundle-how-b-a-santamaria-shaped-post-war-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Santamaria was also a cheerleader for multiple genocides and atrocities committed by right wing dictatorships.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;The NCC, through its News Weekly publication, was resolute on the crimes of the left, in China and elsewhere. But for these parallel depredations it had only praise. The dirty war in Guatemala was as bad, on its own scale, as the Holocaust or the Gulag, and much of it was directed at indigenous people; the Vietnam War was a high-tech slaughter on a peasant civil war, killing more than a million directly, and millions more indirectly. <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The failure to cow subject populations only caused an urge to redoubling efforts. In 1966, as the killings continued in Indonesia,&nbsp;News Weekly&nbsp;ran an editorial condemning them \u2014 because they were targeting ethnic Chinese. The paper urged Indonesians to get back to killing communists and choking the rivers with them (this was the year Gerard Henderson joined the NCC). At home, the NCC stood against abortion decriminalisation, no-fault divorce, state-funded women\u2019s refuges, homosexuality decriminalisation, anti-discrimination laws, and much else that we now believe to be essential to a secular civilised society.&#8221;<\/span> <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" title=\"Rundle: how B.A. Santamaria shaped post-war Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2015\/08\/21\/rundle-how-b-a-santamaria-shaped-post-war-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Source<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Including the US and Australian backed <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"What the United States Did in Indonesia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/10\/the-indonesia-documents-and-the-us-agenda\/543534\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genocidal communist purge<\/a> <\/span>committed by the Indonesian military.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;In Indonesia in October 1965, Suharto, a powerful Indonesian military leader, accused the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) of organizing a brutal coup attempt, following the kidnapping and murder of six high-ranking army officers. Over the months that followed, he oversaw the systematic extermination of up to a million Indonesians for affiliation with the party, or simply for being accused of harboring leftist sympathies. He then took power and ruled as dictator, with U.S. support, until 1998.&#8221;<\/em><\/span> &#8211; Source<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Santamaria was also heavily influenced by an open letter written by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 called &#8220;Rights and duties of capital and labour&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Let the working man and the employer make free agreements, and in particular let them agree freely as to the wages; nevertheless \u2026 If through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will afford him no better, he is made the victim of force and injustice.&#8221; <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Pope Leo XIII\u2019s 1891 encyclical, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rerum Novarum.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">It was extremely influential on the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese fascist movements which Santamaria idolized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">To explain why they this is influential we are going to have to look at one of the pillars of fascism &#8211; corporatism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Despite the terms understandable misuse in popular discourse corporatism isn&#8217;t when corporations run society, the correct term for that is Corporatocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">So what is corporatism?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">It treats different groups in society as different parts of the same body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">These parts including business owners, unions, guilds etc&#8230; organised into corporate groups under the control of the ascendant state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s Mussolini explaining the concept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">Mussolini: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">No individuals or groups (political parties, cultural associations, economic unions, social classes) outside the State. Fascism is therefore opposed to socialism to which unity within the state (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which likewise sees in history nothing but the class struggle.<\/span><\/em><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon. But when brought <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>within the orbit of the state, fascism recognises the real needs which give the rise to socialism and trade unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or cooperative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the state.&#8221; <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">If this sounds familiar it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the modus operandi of the SDA and their relationship with employers.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">If you&#8217;ve ever worked in retail sector you know how this works out for workers. They get crushed.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;News of the Coles deal was just the first in a string of revelations about SDA-negotiated workplace agreements that deny Australia\u2019s lowest-paid workers hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Dozens of agreements across the retail and fast food sectors are now under scrutiny, including those with Australia\u2019s three biggest employers: Woolworths, McDonald\u2019s and Coles.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"block text-block\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty says of them (SDA): \u201cThey\u2019re Catholic, they\u2019re tribal, they\u2019re anti-communist. But they do believe in social justice.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Shopped out - Australia\u2019s largest private-sector union represents more than 200,000 low-paid workers. So why is it so keen on selling them out while swanning off on moral crusades? By Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/interactive\/2016\/shopped-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source <\/a><\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">We will talk about this more in part 3.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Santamaria&#8217;s fascism is based on the fascist government in Portugal, a deeply theocratic project where the division between church and state was abolished.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Regrettably, such views provided a theological buttress for author regimes such as in Spain under Franco and Salazar which, although respecting the rights of the Catholic Church, seriously violated the rights of ordinary citizens. While Santamaria later condemned Franco for his &#8220;barbarities&#8221;, in neither edition of his memoirs does he as much as mention Salazar. Santamaria was well acquainted with anti-modernist papal political theory and took it seriously, which explains his ambivalence to democracy and his open hostility to social libertarianism.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">&#8220;In short, Santamaria&#8217;s preferred social system was one that would best prepare <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">people for the Kingdom of God by creating the conditions in which religious and <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">spiritual life would flourish in the temporal world.&#8221; <\/span><\/em><\/span>&#8211; Costar and Strangio,2004 &#8220;B.A Santamaria, True Believer?&#8221; Australian history 1.2 (<a title=\"B.A. Santamaria: 'a true believer'? - B. Costar, Paul Strangio - Published 2004\" href=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/B.A.Santamaria.A-True-Believer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">PDF available<\/span><\/a>)<br \/>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The theocratic project continues within the SDA:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8211; They stalled Same Sex marriage for a decade<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8211; Opposed Abortion and Euthanasia<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8211; Opposed Mandatory reporting of priests abusing children<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&#8211; Their MPs are the reason the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" title=\"On the \u2018Religious Discrimination Bill\u2019 and the Labor Party \u2013 by Matthew Sinapi\" href=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/on-the-religious-discrimination-bill-and-the-labor-party-by-matthew-sinapi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ALP supported the bigot bill<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Santamaria made no bones about the long term goal, writing to Mannix that the &#8220;Social Studies Movement should within the period of five or six years be able to completely transform the labour movement&#8230; They should be able to implement a Christian social program in both the state and federal spheres&#8221;<\/span><\/em> &#8211; Letter from Santamaria to Archbishop Mannix, sourced from Fitzgerald, 2003, &#8221; The Pope&#8217;s Battalions: Santamaria and the Labor Split&#8221; <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" title=\"The Pope's Battalions: Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/the-popes-battalions-santamaria-catholicism-and-the-labor-split-20030614-gdgxcy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #808080;\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Some SDA-linked politicians, including James Merlino, the Victorian Deputy Premier, and Greg Donnelly, a NSW Labor upper house member, have made their views clear. Merlino came to support same-sex marriage but was an opponent of voluntary assisted dying legislation, which passed in Victoria in 2017. Donnelly, who is the president of the NSW branch of the SDA as well as sitting in Parliament, campaigned against same-sex marriage and is a leading anti-abortion voice.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Make no mistake Santamaria wasn&#8217;t the polite type of bigot towards the the queer community. He said the quiet part out loud.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How the Liberals got from \u2018subsidies for sodomy\u2019 to \u2018let the people decide\u2019 Our old friend B.A. Santamaria was comfortable denouncing &quot;aberrant sexual practices&quot; and &quot;sodomites&quot; on national TV. His spiritual heirs are doing the same, if you listen closely enough. Jeff Sparrow Aug 13, 2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2015\/08\/13\/how-the-liberals-got-from-subsidies-for-sodomy-to-let-the-people-decide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25720\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Jeff-Sparrow-Crikey.jpg?resize=596%2C244&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Jeff-Sparrow-Crikey.jpg 596w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Jeff-Sparrow-Crikey-480x197.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 596px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">He was given a TV show by 9 oligarch, Frank Packer which he used to denounce &#8220;aberrant sexual behaviour and &#8220;sodomites&#8221;<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">His bigotry wasn&#8217;t limited to the queer community either. He was an open racist who called for white Christian expansion while denouncing the &#8220;Red Asiatic Flood&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">In short as one of his critics has noted, Santamaria&#8217;s aim was to build a rural Catholic peasantry in Australia, Indeed, Santamaria urged that the families be settled on the land should preferably be drawn from the rural areas of Europe Asia was typical of Santamaria&#8217;s commentaries on international affairs. Indeed, &#8216;five-minute-to-midnight&#8217; alarmism about Australia being swamped by a &#8216;Red Asiatic Flood&#8217;, as a 1950 News Weekly headline declared, was a constant theme of those commentaries, including when Santamaria was one of the most vociferous advocates of Australia&#8217;s military involvement in Vietnam.&#8221; Less well understood, but even more remarkable, is that Santamaria seriously entertained the Eurocentric and imperialist delusion that it might be part of Australia&#8217;s divine mission to serve as &#8216;the &#8220;mirror of Christianity to Asia &#8211;<\/span> <a title=\"Costar and Strangio,2004 &quot;B.A Santamaria, True Believer?&quot; Australian history 1.2\" href=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/B.A.Santamaria.A-True-Believer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Source<\/span><\/a> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Once again the authoritarian and racist legacy lives on in the SDA.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">When Kevin Rudd decided to open concentration camps on Manus and Nauru the man he chose for the job was Tony Burke, an SDA aligned MP.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ONeill-and-Rudd.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25722\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ONeill-and-Rudd-mdm.jpg?resize=600%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ONeill-and-Rudd-mdm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ONeill-and-Rudd-mdm-480x289.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;In the strongest line a modern Labor prime minister has yet taken against asylum seekers, Mr Rudd said: &#8221;As of today, asylum seekers who come here by boat without a visa will never be settled in Australia.&#8221; <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Rudd slams door on refugees By Bianca Hall and Jonathan Swan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/rudd-slams-door-on-refugees-20130719-2qa5b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Source<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"> &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Australia&#8217;s offshore detention centre network is in crisis, with more staff turning on a &#8221;cruel and degrading&#8221; system they say makes riots inevitable. <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Their accusations came as Immigration Minister Tony Burke embarked on his own mission to investigate allegations of rape made by a former employee at the detention centre on Papua New Guinea&#8217;s Manus Island. &#8211; <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" title=\"Rudd plan in tatters as camps labelled 'gulags' By Bianca Hall and Michael Gordon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/rudd-plan-in-tatters-as-camps-labelled-gulags-20130724-2qjqo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Source<\/span><\/a><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">I really want to stress how anti-democratic Santamaria was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">He infiltrated the Union movement and ALP using every dirty trick on the book and openly supported Menzies attempt to ban and lock up his political opponents en masse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">He never denied, however that he adopted the tactics of Bolshevism &#8216;my thought was that battles to defeat communist power in the labour movement&#8230; Should essentially be cadre against cadre, cell against cell, faction against faction&#8221; In the short term this strategy was successful and the fact it was clandestine allowed Santamaria and his supporters influence disproportionate to their actual support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">This has had a profound effect in the SDA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Undemocratic structures, collaboration with employers and a high turnover have given a conservative Catholic vanguard control of the largest private sector union in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Then the rules were changed so there couldn&#8217;t be counterattacks from the left&#8221;, says one union critic of the SDA, who is well versed in the complex machinery of it&#8217;s oligarchy.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;There&#8217;s a whole range of impediments foreign to a democratic structure. There has not been a genuine contest in 15-20 years. And the leadership have access to vast election funds to fight off any challenge.<\/em><\/span> <em><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">As Josh Cullinan, current bete noire of the shoppies, said in an interview with Fairfax a couple of months back, recalling his 2002 job interview with the union. \u201cI was told \u2026 that if I worked for them I\u2019d have to join the ALP and I\u2019d have to attend ALP conferences,\u201d Cullinan recalled. \u201cAnd [at the conference] I was to vote against abortion, rights for homosexuals and [vote for] a whole lot of conservative agendas.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #808080;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;margin-top: ;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But those agendas, it now appears, came at a huge cost to members. Not millions of dollars, as in the case of the HSU, but hundreds of millions.<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Back at the end of May, the Fair Work Commission found an agreement between Coles and the SDA covering 77,000 workers resulted in many of them being paid well-below-minimum wages set by the safety-net award system.<\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"> &#8211; Seccombe &#8220;Unions Poisoned by ALP affiliation<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Unions poisoned by ALP affiliation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au\/news\/ir\/2016\/09\/24\/unions-poisoned-alp-affiliation\/14746392003779#hrd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The Monthly<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">This has left members powerless as their values and livelihoods are undermined by the leadership using the SDA resources and power to pursue their fascist agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">It has made people like Don Farrell some of the most powerful people in the parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The autocratic methodology hasn&#8217;t been contained to the union. It&#8217;s part of the <a title=\"Labor\u2019s Anthony Albanese Is Not a Friend of Australia\u2019s Left \u2014 And He Never Was By Nicholas Daniel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2020\/11\/australian-labor-party-anthony-albanese-new-south-wales-right-wing-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">right faction that collaborated with Anthony Albanese<\/span><\/a> to destroy grass roots democracy in the NSW branch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">These people despise democracy. They only care about their crusades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Their grubby paws were also all over the <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" title=\"Labor revokes 1,700 Victorian memberships in response to branch-stacking scandal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/nov\/27\/labor-revokes-1700-victorian-memberships-in-response-to-branch-stacking-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victorian branch stacking scandal<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">One of Somyurek&#8217;s flunkies, Nathan Croft was affiliated with the SDA before being expelled from the ALP for his role in the scandal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">As you can see BA Santamaria has has left a toxic imprint on the SDA because of the DLP split he&#8217;s also left a lasting legacy on the liberal party as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Some of the former DLP people didn&#8217;t go back to the ALP, they went to the liberal party including Tony Abbott.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">There&#8217;s a fantastic quarterly essay called <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" title=\"Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott By David Marr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themonthly.com.au\/issue\/2012\/september\/1347234466\/david-marr\/political-animal-making-tony-abbott#mtr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Political Animal&#8221;<\/a><\/span> by David Marr which goes into how Abbott was shaped by his mentor, going as far as calling him Australia&#8217;s first DLP prime minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s excellent if you want to understand Abbott.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">This link with the Liberal Party will be crucial when we talk about why the SDA has never been held accountable in part 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s also going to be crucial in understanding why hard right liberals like Eric Abetz (<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"A French court sentenced Abetz to 20 years' imprisonment for crimes against humanity, particularly his role in arranging the deportation of French Jews from Drancy internment camp to the extermination camps\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otto_Abetz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Otto Abetz<\/a><\/span>) are so fond of the SDA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">As you can see this has turned into a monster of a thread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Next week we are going to talk about how Santamaria infiltrated the union movement, the DLP split and why Bob Hawke let the fascists back into the ALP.<\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25738 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wobbly-icon.jpg?resize=199%2C198&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wobbly-icon.jpg?resize=300%2C298&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wobbly-icon.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wobbly-icon.jpg?w=377&amp;ssl=1 377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua, palatino, serif; font-size: 18pt; color: #003300;\"><strong>References<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott Government experiment (Part 5)\" href=\"https:\/\/theaimn.com\/facets-australian-fascism-abbott-government-experiment-part-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theaimn.com\/facets-australian-fascism-abbott-government-experiment-part-5\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themonthly.com.au\/issue\/2012\/september\/1347234466\/david-marr\/political-animal-making-tony-abbott#mtr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">https:\/\/www.themonthly.com.au\/issue\/2012\/september\/1347234466\/david-marr\/political-animal-making-tony-abbott#mtr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/nov\/27\/labor-revokes-1700-victorian-memberships-in-response-to-branch-stacking-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/nov\/27\/labor-revokes-1700-victorian-memberships-in-response-to-branch-stacking-scandal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/italy-changes-shirts-the-origins-of-italian-fascism\/oclc\/223289469#borrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/italy-changes-shirts-the-origins-of-italian-fascism\/oclc\/223289469#borrow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/en-academic.com\/dic.nsf\/enwiki\/3203485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en-academic.com\/dic.nsf\/enwiki\/3203485<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/10\/the-indonesia-documents-and-the-us-agenda\/543534\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/10\/the-indonesia-documents-and-the-us-agenda\/543534\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/B.A.Santamaria.A-True-Believer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/B.A.Santamaria.A-True-Believer.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/interactive\/2016\/shopped-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/interactive\/2016\/shopped-out\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/the-popes-battalions-santamaria-catholicism-and-the-labor-split-20030614-gdgxcy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/the-popes-battalions-santamaria-catholicism-and-the-labor-split-20030614-gdgxcy.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/rudd-slams-door-on-refugees-20130719-2qa5b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/rudd-slams-door-on-refugees-20130719-2qa5b.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/rudd-plan-in-tatters-as-camps-labelled-gulags-20130724-2qjqo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/rudd-plan-in-tatters-as-camps-labelled-gulags-20130724-2qjqo.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2020\/11\/australian-labor-party-anthony-albanese-new-south-wales-right-wing-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2020\/11\/australian-labor-party-anthony-albanese-new-south-wales-right-wing-politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au\/news\/ir\/2016\/09\/24\/unions-poisoned-alp-affiliation\/14746392003779#hrd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">https:\/\/www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au\/news\/ir\/2016\/09\/24\/unions-poisoned-alp-affiliation\/14746392003779#hrd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"u2bjqm0QYF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2015\/08\/13\/how-the-liberals-got-from-subsidies-for-sodomy-to-let-the-people-decide\/\">How the Liberals got from &#8216;subsidies for sodomy&#8217; to &#8216;let the people decide&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;How the Liberals got from &#8216;subsidies for sodomy&#8217; to &#8216;let the people decide&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; Crikey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2015\/08\/13\/how-the-liberals-got-from-subsidies-for-sodomy-to-let-the-people-decide\/embed\/#?secret=Ypa384QvEM#?secret=u2bjqm0QYF\" data-secret=\"u2bjqm0QYF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"z47SdxVAWN\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/on-the-religious-discrimination-bill-and-the-labor-party-by-matthew-sinapi\/\">On the &#8216;Religious Discrimination Bill&#8217; and the Labor Party &#8211; by Matthew Sinapi<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;On the &#8216;Religious Discrimination Bill&#8217; and the Labor Party &#8211; by Matthew Sinapi&#8221; &#8212; Dingo News\" src=\"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/on-the-religious-discrimination-bill-and-the-labor-party-by-matthew-sinapi\/embed\/#?secret=3OCrWpMksy#?secret=z47SdxVAWN\" data-secret=\"z47SdxVAWN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"UYqRLtvFAy\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2015\/08\/21\/rundle-how-b-a-santamaria-shaped-post-war-australia\/\">Rundle: how B.A. Santamaria shaped post-war Australia<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Rundle: how B.A. Santamaria shaped post-war Australia&#8221; &#8212; Crikey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2015\/08\/21\/rundle-how-b-a-santamaria-shaped-post-war-australia\/embed\/#?secret=l5UbxiHtFh#?secret=UYqRLtvFAy\" data-secret=\"UYqRLtvFAy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Feature Image from <a class=\"gk-home\" title=\"The facets of Australian fascism: the Abbott Government experiment (Part 5)\" href=\"https:\/\/theaimn.com\/facets-australian-fascism-abbott-government-experiment-part-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The AIM Network<\/a> and &nbsp;<a title=\"Shane Maloney and Chris Grosz Daniel Mannix &amp; BA Santamaria\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themonthly.com.au\/issue\/2008\/october\/1290493058\/shane-maloney\/daniel-mannix-ba-santamaria#mtr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Monthly<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Oscar Wobbly\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ozwobbly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dingo.news\/voice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/twitter-a.jpg?resize=50%2C50&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/a>By Oscar Wobbly &#8211; <a title=\"Original Tweet\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ozwobbly\/status\/1493763703748972549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Original Tweet\/thread<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is the first part of my 4 part series on the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees&#8217; Association SDA If you&#8217;re going to talk about the SDA you need to understand the man who reshaped the organisation in his own image. B.A Santamaria is one of the most influential people in union history. 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