Gough Whitlam’s campaign to win government from 1967 to 1972 brought modern media savvy to Australian politics.
Politics in the 1960s and 70s was a very different battlefield, which blew open the post-war conservatism which Australians dutifully expressed at the ballot box. While Vietnam has become Iraq, the Commie menace has gone, along with Christian sectarianism, traditional views on sexual roles, conscription and most of the cultural cringe.
