@pintohoo; re your post which included "... Whitlam got us out of wars ----------- not into them".
Therein lies the reason the appointment of a new US Ambassador to Australia, the repeated blocking of 'Supply' and the eventual sacking of Whitlam's Government courtesy of our subservience to British Royalty.
Whitlam tore up their hymn sheet! He terminated Australia's Colonial Era, embraced a future involving trade with China and modernised our rust-bucket, white picket fence economy in just over three years.
Whitlam's war service, his unprecedented mastery of the power of language, his refreshing egalitarianism, his love of Australia and its peoples, his admiration and respect for women, his vision for a better future for all and even his panache for and love of 'The Arts' apparent in the purchase of 'Blue Poles' enraged those who believed in British white supremacy, ethnic-cleansing, warmongering and Colonial Era displacement of First Nations Peoples.
Those who've followed on from Whitlam have collectively achieved next to nothing - in some cases including funding for public education they've worked overtime to resurrect incestuous exclusion, advantage, privilege and anti-Science.
