Whitlam bought in free education and free healthcare, a legacy that has mostly lasted up until today.
They've chipped away at the education thing a bit but not by much, no reason why it wont swing back to free again one day.
They've been trying for 40 years to hack down the free healthcare - failed every time. Now even the USA has come to the party on that one.
Now we've got Abbott, who upon knowing that we're going to get universal PPL as well, is not even asking the question of whether or not we should have it, but how big can we make it.
It must make all the hard-right wingers here cry every morning to know that these things are here to stay.
Whitlam's death reminds me that once contentious social issues restricted to support only from the left, are now mainstream.
