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Matilda

(6,384 posts) Tue Nov 13, 2012, 10:07 PM Nov 2012

Today, November 13th, is the 40th anniversary of Gough Whitlam's "It's Time" speech. Sadly, the full speech doesn't appear to be available anywhere, but here is a link to the opening paragraphs:

http://whitlamdismissal.com/1972/11/13/whitlam-1972-election-policy-speech.html

Those were the days!

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"It's Time": 40 years on [View all] Matilda Nov 2012 OP

It's not the speech, but I found the campaign song... Violet_Crumble Nov 2012 #1

It was Joe Hasham. I found him on Google... Violet_Crumble Nov 2012 #3

werent they the good old days peakhillfm Nov 2012 #4