As someone who has suffered the canonization of the Great God Gough over three years at uni, I can only assume that Frazer, Kerr et.al. should be congratulated as people who elevated a mediocre and fiscally incompetent Prime Minister to something of a martyr.

Free university? Who wouldn’t be popular who takes away the responsibility for someone’s own education and gives them a free ride? I wonder how many would be prepared to give up the gardens, grounds and bars of the university to sit in a brick box for the sake of free education? It is also interesting that those that advocate the Gough legacy are also those that have fought long and hard to maintain the compulsory union fees at uni. I am looking forward the inevitable spin away from hypocrisy for that little gem of a position.

Pulling the troops out of Vietnam? It was already in situ. Whitlam completed what McMahon had already begun. The war was already well and truly lost in the court of public opinion.

Whitlam had great ideals but they are easy for anyone to have. The free rides were always going to cost us dearly and I, for one, am glad that it cost him and not the nation.

It is a sad endictment of the capabilities of the Australian public that even to this day the old egomanic is still getting away with the outright lie that Kerr was the villian. Whitlam tried to be a third world petty dictater and we should be forever thankful that Kerr had more courage then Whitlam had moral accountability.