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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.He was certainly entertaining & ascerbic. I wonder how it would have been if he had deposed Hawke after a few years rather than when most of the party had become arrogantly self fulfilling.
FrayedBear
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Nov 29, 2022
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Yes, but his Australian brand of Reaganism and Thatcherism was not. It lead to the decades of Howardism that followed and out of which Australia is slowly emerging.
I find this continuing heroising of Keating and Hawke by ALP apparatchiks frankly absurd, and I do not think it is shared by labour supporters. Whitlam made Australia a better country. Hawke and Keating made it a better country for the rich.
David1955
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Nov 27, 2022
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puff:
Saw an interview where he admitted his biggest regret policy wise was selling the CBA, who used to lead competitive interest rates set by RBA. I agree with him on that, the whole privatisation of state assets phase they went on.
He was entertaining. And Hawke was a shit load better than Malcolm Fraser but Whitlam was the man. Grew up in SA, Don Dunstan was good too..
@puff yes, I remember it well. In 76 during my honours year studying SA politics with the late Dean Jaench, we were just a small honours group but it included 2 Dunstan-crats from the Premier's Dept. A bit up themselves but they really felt they were reformers and it was an age of things feeling like they were getting better. Very different now.
I can't recall Whitlam ever saying anything positive about Hawke and Keating govts. He kept his own counsel. I believe he was not impressed, and saw Hawke as betraying the progressive agenda for short term gain.
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