Which brings us to Saint Gough the divine. His fans will tell you he was deposed in a CIA plot precisely so he couldn’t make Australia a Republic, withdraw from Vietnam, end poverty and introduce the Age of Aquarius. In reality he initially became PM with a majority of eight seats, and that was further reduced to five seats in his second term. He was then dismissed and an election called that resulted in the largest swing against the Labor Party in post war history.
Chiefly was not just the most radical PM Australia ever had he was probably the most radical any Anglosphere country had, imagine a racist Tony Benn with an Aussie accent.
Chiefly was not just the most radical PM Australia ever had he was probably the most radical any Anglosphere country had, imagine a racist Tony Benn with an Aussie accent.
Okay he was slightly less racist than his predecessors but he was a firm supporter of the White Australia Policy.