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Turned the tele off when I realised he was going give a dead bloke a good ideological kicking.All class our ToneI found Abbott's swipe at Whitlam rather unpleasant as well when he said something like "he may not have been the greatest Prime Minister" definitely implying he thought Whitlam was one of the worst.
So because he is the Premier of WA he should lie and say he thinks everything about Gough was just swell?Some of it is true. I can say that, you can say that. But neither of us is the current premier of WA.
Like Abbott and Co he should have just said nothing.So because he is the Premier of WA he should lie and say he thinks everything about Gough was just swell?
He turned Australia into a modern country with modern ideals.
Yep he did, without question.Did he?
On such an occasion, he isn't speaking as Colin Barnett. He's speaking as the Premier of WA, and that's why what he said was inappropriate. Understand?So because he is the Premier of WA he should lie and say he thinks everything about Gough was just swell?
Turned the tele off when I realised he was going give a dead bloke a good ideological kicking.All class our Tone
Mr Pyne was eight years old when the dismissal happened: "My mother was doing the ironing and I was watching Adventure Island. My mother started crying. I have to let you in on a secret, she was crying out of joy."
Didn't you predict something like this RisingPhoenix ??
It's on topic provided you are willing to post that you agree he was a wonderful PM.
This could be the single most absurdly moderated thread in the history of bigfooty.
You have a moderator of the political discussion board deleting and banning people for civilly and rationally engaging in political discussion about the topic of the thread, and who has since changed the title of the thread to reflect his absurd decisions. The whole point of 'discussion' is people discuss things.
Jiska have a think about what you are doing because you are totally in the wrong here.
Yeah I read that, was not impressed at all. The hypocrisy is mind blowing.
first former pm has died in my life. amazing. was not pm when i was a whipper snapper, but i think he is the first to die that i am aware of. when did mcmahon go?
Maybe, but it might depend on whether they irrevocably improved our society, for the majority of the public, as Whitlam's changes did.If we actually did have a politician from the right side of politics who made fundamentalist changes as radical as Whitlam's, you lot would go absolutely mental.
I knew blackcat was 12!McMahon passed in '88
John Gorton in 2002
Mods did absolutely nothing about the conga-line of haters in the Margaret Thatcher thread. Nothing at all.
Yet they are already talking about banning people here for suggesting Whitlam wasn't the 2nd coming.
The bias on this forum is pathetic.
A truly great Australian. Despite his economic failings, Gough perhaps had a more profound effect on the fabric of Australian society than anyone before him. Or since.
Thanks Gough. Vale.