Yes, Bill,
Gough Whitlam in three short years changed Australia for the better in countless ways.
Yet I have met people who knew of him only that he was sacked from the Prime Ministership
by the Governor-General John Kerr - whom Whitlam had appointed…
OK. I was sitting in a branch of Gap in downtown Seattle while my wife was looking for
winter wear. My iPhone broke the news for me.
Max
lifelong Labour voter (in NZ, Scotland, Australia) even after ‘Labour’ ceased to mean what
it used to mean.
On Oct 22, 2014, at 7:50 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Where were you when you heard?
> I'd just cut up my third apple at breakfast
> after rejecting two rotters. iPad broke it.
>
> Gough large, Gough communicating,
> Gough reforming when reform meant
> make better. Gough striding through Athens.
>
> Gough barely holding in check his pleasure
> when people got him. Gough heading that brief
> parliament of adults who cared.
>
> Gough's daggy silver sideburns. Gough dismissive
> of conservative opponents but never sneering.
> Well may we say, we've lost our champion.
>
> bw
> 21.10.14
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