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Half a century on, it's time to reassess the Whitlam government's economic legacy

  • Written by John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
Half a century on, it's time to reassess the Whitlam government's economic legacyNational Archives of Australia/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

After leading the Australian Labor Party to its first federal election victory in 23 years, Gough Whitlam wasted no time.

The Tuesday after his election on December 2 1972, he formed an interim two-man cabinet – a duumvirate – with his deputy Lance Barnard, and set about changing...

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