Coming, as I do, from a real Labor background I’m proud of the fact that I actively campaigned against Whitlam.

Whitlam, with the help of Leftist Nugget Coombs, was also the greatest blight on indigenous communities.

What followed those two fool's decisions has been decades of poverty, alcoholism, domestic violence, child abuse, pornography, crime and misery.

Whitlam would have loved the Voice

Was Gough Whitlam good or bad? Was Malcolm Fraser right
or wrong?
Foxy,
They were simply not competent enough because they were nothing more than a reflection of the voters !

You've got to give it to the hard right haters, they never give up.

"Coming, as I do, from a real Labor background" being a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party, is hardly a real Labor background. Issy what motivated you to "actively campaigned against Whitlam" was it because he stopped the senseless killing of young Australians in Vietnam? Its a pity there wasn't a Whitlam around at the time of the Korean War, could have saved a few lives there as well.

From the number of rabid neo-conservatives posting here I get the impression that many either weren't around or are too young to remember Australia during the pre-Whitlam era - media commentators included.

I saw an example of their thinking on TV a couple of nights ago.

Rowan Dean (aka "The Talking Pikelet") was insisting that anything that is given for free - University and Medibank in particular - automatically becomes worthless. Strangely he didn't mention other items like public schools, hospitals, roads, police and so on but in the end his agenda was clear.

People like him want the country to be populated by worker drones who know their place but are ruled over by privileged, wealthy and entitled elites. How they must long for the days of the white pocket fence when women and blacks knew their place and knighthoods could be bought in exchange for political favours.

I forgot to include that despite myths to the contrary, Whitlam did not leave the country with a huge deficit. That honour went to Malcolm Fraser and his Treasurer John Howard, that record later to be repeated by Morrison and Frydenberg,