@roseg I wasn't in Australia for Gough Whitlam. I arrived during the Howard years. But as someone who then had no knowledge of what had come before I heard from people the most about Gough Whitlam. And I wondered how someone so admired has not inspired similar policy or voting since.

@evolvewrite 1996 was the year everything started to go down the toilet.

@roseg I hang on to the real hope that a young person of strength, intelligence, compassion and a vision for our country will start drawing people and mobilizing them to kick RW arse. Gough would say: Watch for this person. Support her/him.

@KRBBonser Sally McManus?

@roseg I miss Gough. We can still thank him for the public health system and multi cultural broadcasting, the LNP has not been able to completely destroy that!

@roseg Fear not there’ll be more like Whitlam in years to come, with great vision, appreciation of the needs of the people and the ability to bring appropriate plans into action.

@roseg He was a giant of a man who made our lives so much better

@roseg no. He kept the Curtin/Chfley (and Fisher) ALP thought process going.

@roseg @MColvinMcKenzie I hear and feel you x

@roseg @tilly64 My admiration and affection for him still grows. I planted a rose in his honour, "Man of Steel". It has great resistance to insects, including pissants.

@roseg @dodona777 Me too.

@roseg I’m starting to doubt that I’ll ever see another decent, progressive prime minister in my lifetime.

@roseg @broomstick33 The 1970s were one of a kind. We won't have that group of circumstance again. Now most people have grown up through neoliberalism they don't have those ideas anymore.

@roseg @broomstick33 Yes, me too!😭😭I think about that everyday. I said to my son that, I really didn't think it would be like this for you. I felt that we were headed in the right direction and then came Howard, and it's been on the slide ever since. I fear for him and 'planned for' grandchildren.

@roseg Yes, the older we get, the more we realise what has been lost..

@roseg Also, Gough didn't have to put up with the Hydra that is the 24 hour news cycle that carps, whines, creates headlines out of nothing and undermines at every turn.

@roseg I heard Barry Jones on the radio yesterday. It wasn't just Gough; the depth of talent and energy in that government was phenomenal

@roseg I felt like that once but now I know about Lima Agreement ..he was the first in a long line of sellouts.. unbroken since then

@roseg To think Latham was his protege and that ended in stupidity.