Dear Mr.OMG....
Whitlam ? Social 'reform' ? mate.. more like cultural genocide.
Seldom have so many owed so much (slash_and_burn cultural politics)to so few....
Whitlams and Grassby's criminal policies were the modern equivalent to the steel axes supplied to the Yor Yuront of Cape York Peninsula, and anyone who knows the case is aware of what happened over time with that tribe.
http://www.anthroprof.org/documents/Docs102/102articles/steelAxes.pdf

SELF INTEREST ? yep..sadly each of us has turned to his own way and like sheep, we have gone astray... thinking of no-one but....'us'.
Until we crawl out from under that psychological rock we are doomed to further decay. We need to re-bond with each other.

When Aussie troops went to Palestine/Israel in the later part of WW1 they spontaneously helped out in Kibbutz's...hand milking cows and generally bonding with the locals. Older Israelis smile with warm fondness when remembering the Aussies of that time, who went the extra mile to help. I guess in those days we have more of a 'bush spirit'.

WATER ?.. of course we need to fix it. But HITTING people with licence fees on rain tanks to prop up privatized corporate water company profit sure is NOT the way to go.

24 hours aged this article substantially.

Now Howard's gone to attacking foreign political candidates.

Why? Why attack Obama so stridently? He's not even the endorsed candidate at this stage.

BOAZ_David, cultural genocide? You confused with Menzies here? So the foundations of modern multiculturalism (that maybe a + or -); Medicare, free university education and l think he got the process rolling on Aboriginal reconciliation - all "criminal policies"? Did you pay for your uni education or happy with the HECS and now pay as you go?
Quote from your link "Without the past, the present could be meaningless and the future unstructured and uncertain. Insecurities would be inevitable." - maybe this is what society needs to remember!

Mr.OMG,

Didn't you know?

According to Arjay Gogh Whitlam is responsible for global warming,world famine, flat batteries,cancer, aids, tooth aches and ingrown toe nails. You name it, its there.

Just ask him.

The Rgt Hon E.G. Whitlam, the greatest Prime Minister this nation has know, reformed this country for the better in the 3 years he was there, than all who followed in the three decades hence.

Steve Madden, great news. You're starting to look like our local immortal.

Good timing too. This is shaping up to be an interesting year.