Vale Gough Whitlam

[Piesnchess]

Yes, it was a great and exciting time to be young, first time I voted was for Gough. Literally dragged Australia into the 70s, after wed been living in a comatose, stifling, 1950s comatose state for ages. Did a lot of great things, re health, education, free uni fees, tafe, pensions, benefits, land rights, foreign policy, etc. He was a Giant of this time, and more is the pity we have no Leaders like him around nowdays. Vale Gough, Rest In Peace.

[Captain_MyCaptain]

A great man in many respects.
The peoples politician.
So long Gough.

[Hiss]

[Kwah-LeBaire]

I liked Gough, but...

... he was Geelong's #1 Ticket Holder in 1973.

http://www.bayfm.com.au/news/local-news/53428-whitlam-dies

[Kwah-LeBaire]

Mind you, Port Adelaide claims a piece of him as well.

[Dave The Man]

Aussie Legend

[David]

[Neil Appleby]

I heard an interview featuring Gough today on ABC Classic FM. Currently Margaret Throsby is celebrating 20 years in the chair of the Midday Interview.
Today's interview was from 1997 and featured a gloriously egocentric and wildly entertaining Gough Whitlam talking about his government, his dismissal and his legacy. He compares himself to Napoleon at one stage and also rather poignantly speaks of the appropriate music for his funeral: Verdi's opera Nabuco. I was driving along Eastlink listening today and cried with laughter and with some sadness too.

Here is the link; enjoy it with a good drink!
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/classic/midday/201410/miv-2014-10-23.mp3

[blackandwhite4life]

It's great to come onto a Nicks post and be in 100% agreement with fellow Nicksters for a change. Nice!

They don't make political leaders like Gough any more. What a man he was.

And 40 years later, so much of what he introduced and changed could all be swept away if the current mob had their way. Right down to the re-introduction of knighthoods FFS!

[On the March]

Well done MB



https://twitter.com/CollingwoodFC/status/525432937375076352/photo/1

[September Zeros]

[jackcass]

[Dr Pie]

Jack Galbally, ALP leader in the State Upper House, former Pies player and loyal servant of John Wren Senior, was the person who arranged for Gough's membership of the Magpies. Part of the reason was that Gough or Galbally had pointed out that Collingwood Football Club had more members than the Victorian ALP. Both Gough and Jack G were in dispute with the Victorian ALP officials.

Of course nowadays Collingwood has more members than the ALP has nationally. This may have something to do with the fact that the ALP is not led by someone who believes in reforming society as Gough did.

Vale Gough Whitlam. The last Labor Prime Minister who actually was a Reformist.

[35forever]

Terrible, horrible sad news.
Gough was one of the great heroes of my childhood, him and Lou Richards, I knew we were going to lose both soon, but I thought Lou would be first. My dad had met Gough and said he was the man, I believed him and Gough never let me down. Unfortunately his cabinet was full of brilliant but flawed men, at a time when people cared more about personal lives than policies, (although maybe that time hasn't ended) and they played right into the hands of that talentless, grey, jerk off Fraser. I'll never forget that awful Remembrance day, that and the heart-breaking first wooden spoon less than a year later were the low points of my early years. It was so good to see Gough on TV recently looking reasonably well, I didn't see this coming.
Bye Gough, you and your apprentice Paul have been the only politicians worth the name these last 50 years,

shit I feel old.

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[Woods]

The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget.

Rudyard Kipling, Recessional, 1897