In dumping net zero, the Liberals have thumbed their noses at voters they need to win
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
With much talk this week about the end of the Whitlam government, Liberal conservatives might do well to read Gough Whitlam’s 1967 speech to the Victorian Labor Party, at the start of his climb to power.
Like the Liberals now, federal Labor had been trounced at the 1966 election. Whitlam was the new leader, and he took on Victorian hardliners...





