When Gough Whitlam moved to my street in Cabramatta I was eight years old. The Whitlam family moved to the other end of Albert Street into a four-bedroom brick modernist house with a flat roof. Around the same time, I visited the Whitlam house and saw Gough’s new study, which was in a vacant bedroom after his older sons left home. Whitlam’s reforms directly benefited me and my family. Nibbling on a mini-quiche, I reflected how far the mud-pie eating kid from Cabramatta had come and the massive impact Gough Whitlam had on my life and generations of other Australians.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2021 17:31 UTC