Gough Whitlam

[twinkles**stars]

Passed away aged 98

[azureline**]

O that is a good age, didn't realise .

RIP Gough.

[polksaladallie]

Very sad.  RIP Gough.

A "one off'.  Never to be duplicated.  Hopefully some younger posters will read the accolades and realise how he changed Australia forever, and, in doing so, made their lives better.

[imastawka]

98 is certainly a good age.

Margaret went in 2012 aged 93.

RIP Gough

[katydidthat]

RIP Gough, you will be missed.

[village_person]

Do we carry on like the morons did when Thatcher died or do we show our humanity and say "vale Gough Whitlam".

[debra9275]

RIP Gough

98 was a good old age.

what I remember him for the most was getting rid of conscription  ~ well done Gough

[boris1gary]

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@village_person wrote:

Do we carry on like the morons did when Thatcher died or do we show our humanity and say "vale Gough Whitlam".

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what has one of the UK's most hated prime ministers got to do with Gough Whitlam, Australia's most loved PM?

[imastawka]

Yes, Gough ended 60 years of conscription for our young men

and lowered the voting age to 18.   

Gough was my first vote (but I was already 21 by then anyway)

[lightningdance]

Gough; arguably the most divisive PM and the biggest failure in government  after Gillard. We will be afforded all the fantasy of his short political life, all the" legend" but the true facts are he couldn't rule, like Rudd couldn"t rule and Gillard failed to rule.

RIP Gough, will you be be missed?