"The ABC have already started sanatising history to airbrush out Gough's Goofs."
please tell us in plain language all of Goughs Goofs.
What were the things HE DID .....policies he implemented that you claim are goofs and have been airbrush by the ABC.
I have read all the threads here relating to Gough and have not seen any substantive issues.Please inform fellow HC readers and posters.
There was a time here when posters would on the mention of Gough Whitlam immediately make the claims of his impulsive and excessive spending being responsible for destroying our economy.
This does not happen any more because the true facts of his fiscal prudence has been established by Government statistics.
The critics are left with social policy.On social policy there has been no Government in Australian history as effective in making lasting worthwhile progressive change to this country.
What are we left with .....scandal,personality traits,perceptions that were fostered by a hostile media.
Jim Cairns "alleged affair and the Khemlani Affair were used to destroy a democratically elected Government.
By design or otherwise very questionable mechanisms were used to trigger the expulsion of Goughs Government.Many still believe it was unconstitutional.
That the vested interest of the media combined with the political interests of Malcolm Frazer and the self interest of Kerr should contrive this situation tells us much about the ambitions of these participants.
They cared more about their interests than our system of democracy.
That Gough acted so graciously tells us his primary interest was the peace of the nation.
That is why people who were not blinded by the self interest of the mass media or their own political bent love this man.......he cared more about this country than his own political ambitions.
