The infamous day Gough Whitlam was sacked, three big issues were quoted.
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Inflation hit 12 per cent, but the figures then included housing which are now left out, thus nowadays fudged.
Unemployment hit 5 per cent but that was for full-time, not a few hours a fortnight, now higher even after fudging. Government spent more than it earned, but long-term vision needed education and health to build a clever, healthy and wealthy nation, accessible to poor people.
You have to spend money to make money and Gough did that.
Youth could not vote but were conscripted to an unwinable war.
It was reported that politicians' kids missed out via health issues.
Malcolm Fraser was defence minister and went on to be caretaker PM after Gough got booted out.
Gough was blasted for visiting Asia, but our LNP now enjoys spending Asian money.
We now have a rapidly-increasing epidemic of battlers below the poverty line while the billionaire list swells.
Gough's policies aimed for a fairer spread of this. He was truly a modern day Robin Hood.
Alas, it was not the right time, as the wealthy were not yet ready to part with money in 1975.
At one of the Eureka events, Gough arrived in a base model Falcon a few years old.
I was one of the worst dressed commoners in the crowd and he shook my hand.
He encompassed and spanned all classes, not just dignitaries. All I could give him was one little vote.
John Howard has just said he only won two elections by a whisker, thus only just a win.
I guess it's like winning an AFL premiership by just one point not much to celebrate for fans.
After 23 years, Gough was not just a breath of fresh air, but the whole oxygen-rich atmosphere pervaded him.
We were filled with fresh hope, inspiration, optimism for the future and pride in our nation. Then Gough was sacked.
The ALP via a hung parliament has had opportunities to do the same to the LNP by blocking supply and ousting Abbott, but has not stooped to this dastardly act.