Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC, most hated by the Elitists of the Liberal mob rule; the unprecedented Australian social reformer, champion of the working class battlers.
A true Labor Party leader fashioned on traditional Labor ethics.

I've said it many times in the past and I'll say it again -

Gough Whitlam. He dragged Australia kicking and screaming into the 20th century while John Howard and Tony Abbott did everything they could to make sure we stayed there.

Yes, for me too, Gough was the best! Oh to have a bold reformer like him again!

Of course it will never happen. He was removed by the CIA and any contemporary attempting to follow his footsteps would face the same fate, aided and abetted by the big corporations, powerful Israeli and rightwing lobby groups and commercial mainstream media. Visionary reformers driven by egalitarianism and socialist principles have no chance in today's corporately-controlled political landscape.

Albanese will do very little, apart from play it safe. He beat shambolic oppositions, led first by Morrison and then by Dutton, which in Bill Hayden's words 'a drover's dog' could do. He has enormous political capital, but will squander it by sitting on the fence and doing little more than tinkering around the edges. He's a decent man, but we need someone so much bolder and much more of a reformist leader than Albo will ever be.

And as for Howard being one of our best leaders, oh please! He got gun reform right, but little else. He and Costello presided over a mining boom and refused to properly tax the profiteering mining conglomerates to benefit the rightful owners of the mined resources, the Australian people. Howard set in place the investment windfalls which have led to today's housing crisis. He gave us eleven wasted years with his refusal to tackle climate change. He cemented the inequities of Neoliberal economics which have lead to the ever-growing wealth disparities we face today. He gave Pauline Hanson a platform and cruelly and wrongfully demonised innocent asylum seekers. His legacy has been toxic and he should never be revered as some great leader.

The big consolation in this last election is that Dutton will never get to join the list of Australian PMs. May he sink in oblivion, along with his hateful and divisive politics!

To the intellectual elite he was a God who offered them the keys to our Tax Dollars ! The rest of us are still grappling more & more with the social & demographic mess that resulted !
As for the best PM ? Only those who never had to work for a living would say that !
I think the worst move he made was to trade National Service for votes !

But who really made Australia better?

The people who came here to build Australia & of course it all depends on what is meant by "better". In the early days workers lived in shacks, nowadays we hear of Public Servants living in cars imported from China instead of at least cars built here ! The latter are a result of a Governments whose Ministers never served for the Nation due to Whitlam's vote purchase thus were never exposed to the discipline & respect a national Service provides ! Just dig up some old News reels & watch how return soldiers were & are still treated by the intellectuals milling around in Parliament since ! There are good & useless everywhere but more useless are found among the intellectuals than among those who produce wealth !

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Dear Peter (the questioner),

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The best Australian prime minister is yet to come, and probably always will be.

But we should never lose hope. It may be all we have !

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