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Australians all let us rejoice, for Gough is, thankfully, long gone

2 December 2022

4:00 AM

2 December 2022

4:00 AM

Today is the 50th anniversary of the election of the Whitlam government. The hagiography is coming in a torrent: Whitlam the visionary; Whitlam the courageous; Whitlam the Prime Minister who changed Australia forever; Whitlam the international statesman; Whitlam the victim, politically slain by Sir John Kerr’s ‘coup’.

I was in Grade 5 on December 2, 1972.

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