WI Don Dunstan, the ALP Premier of South Australia through some of the 1960's and most of the 1970's was instead the Prime Minister of Australia.
Was inspired to do this ATL by the WI on Jim Cairns as PM. Dunstan strikes me as someone who had the personal unconventionality and idiosyncratic image of Cairns (albeit in very different ways) but the electoral pragmatism of Gough Whitlam.
I'm not sure how plausible it is to swap somone over to federal politics in an ATL, considering that I don't believe Dunstan showed any inclination to in OTL?
Also does any know for certain what faction he was aligned with? I have read that he would by current terms be considered Soft-Left, but he certainly seems to have had a lot more commonsense than some other left-wing figures of the term (ie Jim Cairns, etc).
How would Australia in the 1970's differ with Dunstan as PM? Would he be more electorally successful than Whitlam was?
Was inspired to do this ATL by the WI on Jim Cairns as PM. Dunstan strikes me as someone who had the personal unconventionality and idiosyncratic image of Cairns (albeit in very different ways) but the electoral pragmatism of Gough Whitlam.
I'm not sure how plausible it is to swap somone over to federal politics in an ATL, considering that I don't believe Dunstan showed any inclination to in OTL?
Also does any know for certain what faction he was aligned with? I have read that he would by current terms be considered Soft-Left, but he certainly seems to have had a lot more commonsense than some other left-wing figures of the term (ie Jim Cairns, etc).
How would Australia in the 1970's differ with Dunstan as PM? Would he be more electorally successful than Whitlam was?