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Someone might be pulling your leg there mate. He was fired as the Prime Minister of Australia because he was unable to pass a federal budget.
Unlike the US where failure to do their jobs the governmen shuts down till they can do their job, if an Australian parliament fails to pass a budget the queen's representative, known as the governer general, dissolved the parliament and new elections are held.
While there was suspicion that the Governer General was working with the CIA as he worked for a number of CIA funded fronts, the Aussie version of the CIA , called ASIO, dismissed the idea and a journalist who also investigated the claims did not see a connection. The man him himself denied it too in private letters to the Queen which have since been released to the public.
On a side note, the CIA was unhappy with the PM as he threatened to shut a Pine Gap a US intelligence gathering base in Australia. But that is just regular old politics.
It wasn't as simple as just "he got fired". There was a bunch of dodgy shenanigans around how the GG handled the whole affair. There is a really good ABC podcast about it.