Won't claim to be rusted on any longer, Max. Current lot so dispiriting with their bi-partisan approach to war and asylum seekers particularly have led me for last few years to vote Green with Labor prefs.
Bill
On 22/10/2014, at 8:02 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> 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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