There was heaps of concern around that time pintohoo,
The free university policy helped out a lot of future figures, not so much a change for WA which already had automatic scholarships if you matriculated, but certainly elsewhere. Barry McKenzie, final vestiges of conscription, Les Patterson, .Norman Gunstan, Asian trade, legal aid, universal health care and even borrowing money away from the monopoly British money lenders which seems to be stock and trade for both majors now.
