Rare 1960s interview with Gough Whitlam | 7NEWS Vault
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- Gough Whitlam, Deputy Leader of the Federal Parliamentary ALP at the time of recording, sits down for an extended interview with 7 Days host Peter Westerway. It's believed this interview took place in 1964.
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A Statesman, modest, to the point, honest, and masterful orator. The interviewer was brilliant.
Natural intelligent answers. Much has changed in AusPol.
Bullshit
Fantastic. We were blessed to have him.
Wonderful joy to have met Margaret and Gough at a Campsie rally of Labor in 70s, fab chat treasured
A great man who served far too short a time. Great interview.
Gough...before he ascended to Mount Olympus...the interviewer does a masterful job in bringing out Gough's early years......a fine softball interview.....with a soon to be declared God!!!!!....I believe that Gough is the greatest Aussie ever.....
Kevin EGW was born on top of the Mount, next to Zeüs. It's just that here he's a young Apollo ❤
Sure is ....but Aussies prefer bradman ... the man Ian chappell wouldn't bother having a drink with... nor the time of day for.
@@michaelschulz9164Ian knew Bradman was a conservative who hated the idea of a welfare capitalist system, away from cricket he spent time pushing for the American styled corporate capitalism. He despised the idea of helping the poor, had no time for the average Aussie battler.
An historical gem. And superb sound and picture quality So good to see EGW in his younger self but with the traits of his later essence
What an absolutely great interview , on both sides ,, Fantastic.
Love this
My dads happiest day as a migrant who came in under one of his gods programmes, was meeting Mr Gough many years later after at an event and shaking his hand. A true patriot and statesman
Met the great man 4 times. Once for a 5-6 minute conversation, 1998, and he and Margaret both autographed the front page of a newspaper for me. Date 4-12-72, the day Gough and his wife jetted into Canberra for the swearing-in. Headline WHITLAM TAKES OVER.
You won't see an interview like this post-Howard
Thank you so much for uploading this interview.
Gough was a true statesman: intelligent, thoughtful and articulate.
The great Aussie PM that opened up Australia to the rest of the world, God save Gough
Gough _was_ God.
It's July 11 2023. Happy birthday, Gough. You were the greatest.
What a wonderful interviewer! Day's past.
Whitlam, no need to restate his charisma and grand communication.
I know a bloke who had previously worked at the Australian newspaper and one day in 1990 he pulled out some correspondence from his personal collection of bric-a-rac and other effects and which was a Gough Whitlam letter of complaint to the newspaper regarding something or other. A few type-written lines on official government paper and personally signed by Gough Whitlam. This bloke has a better than average stewardship of his personal keepsakes, and such, so that I'd bet that he still has that piece of correspondence even to this day.
thank you!
The great man himself .....
A wonderful Australian
Leading up to this 60's interview and thereafter Gough sharpened and developed his political craft to secure the Labor leadership in federal Opposition, then in 1972 he was elected as our Prime Minister upon which he dragged Australia into the modern world with his sweeping innovative policy agenda that changed Australia forever and importantly, for the better !!... in a 100 years, history will rate Gough Whitlam as the Abraham Lincoln of Australian politics ... a brilliant man , flawed, but a brilliant 'crash through or crash', master politician ....Thanks Gough !!
E G WHITLAM WHAT A MAN WHAT A MINE A brain of a genius A rapor of a tongue A wit as sharp as a tax I wonder if ANY POLITICIAN TO AND FOR THAT MATTER ANY INTERVIEWER WOULD SIT DOWN AND THE INTERVIEWER ASK THOSE EXACT QUESTIONS TO A POLITICIAN AND HEAR HOW THEY WOULD BE ANSWERED.
Love Gough. Not like the current crop of corrupt unintelligent fools
I dont think we ever seen a gough again
The best PM Australia ever had. The only guy that had a vision for Australia.
It's not rare anymore now that you put it on you tube. Gee he was young in this video.
And he was already 48 years of age here.
Rowland Street Kew. Around the corner from my childhood. Demolished the original home recently. A great statesman for this country.
Should have been saved. A decade + ago, I rang the ALP the first time demolition was discussed, thinking of donating to keep it. They never got back to me.
22:31
They do now...
Gough was way ahead of his time and would have been a great PM now.
why was he dismissed by the Queen? I've heard great things about this man
Because he needed to be. The economy was out of control, Gough was printing money like Biden is today, inflation was 22%, Australia was a laughing stock and the final straw was that the Senate declined to pass Gough's expansionary budget and the government could not pay its bills. The Governor General did the right thing to suspend the government and call for an election at which time Labor (and Gough) were out on their ear.
Did you hear about Gough storming Pine Gap? That was a laugh, and showed how inept he was.
His program to build public toilets at every beach, just to create jobs?
I'm surprised to read the comments here that praise Gough because he was a disaster for the country.
@@pb3616 thanks for the feed back
Ask the CIA
We are a country that hates progress .....as a convict colony we have it in our DNA to not bite our "masters" .... it's the way it is here.
He was unable to arrange the money from Treasury to pay for government business because the Opposition party controlled the Senate, so he tried to get a loan from a country in the middle east.
The GG dismissed him, with American influence. Gough discovered the Americans had lied to Aussies for years about NorthWest Cape, Pine Gap and other US intelligence gathering stations on this continent.
Not only were they gathering far more info than they told us, they weren't sharing it as promised. And the content of signals they were picking up made them a far bigger nuclear target in advent of war than the Americans told us.
Gough announced he wanted to look into it. Then he was sacked.
Didnt the CIA whack him?
Yep....he dared to investigate alternative govt wholesale funding from non Wall St sources ....plus he was making noises about the US Pine Gap facility....
Correct. Gough got pompous and stormed the gate at Pine Gap, and the guards prevented his entrance (as Gough knew that they would), It was all on the evening news back then. The American Ambassador later arranged an inspection after which Gough was measurably humbled. He was a true idiot over Pine Gap. That cost him credibility.
No he lived to old age.
I like how they used to talk like they were doing a radio broadcast!
From a Liberal Democrat. Here we have a man of great wisdom, an orator, a philosopher, a philhellene, a visionary, a statesman.
The last PM with vision. I don't agree with many of his policies, I do agree with the old Labor guard that he was shafted by the establishment.
He was not afraid to take forward steps in politics.
There will never be another EGW
well said.
Paul Keating had vision.
In the short while he was PM he put through so many bills that stand us in good stead today. However, the LNP have been doing the best to dismantle all his good work, but most of them would have benefited from the free education at the Uni’s. Look at the fees the poor youngsters have to pay today! Disgraceful! Nobody will ever come close to Gough!
Carmen, I doubt if you can name a single one?
@@pb3616 Decentraslisation, free uni, infant health centres in the suburbs, curbs, gutters and sewage for the suburbs, ending conscription, any number of training programs for young people, better pay for teachers, arts funding and encouragement, better pensions for retired military officers, consumer laws........
Back then when you asked what your father did but totally ignored the mother's contribution.
Yawning
@@michaelschulz9164 Sighing
More yawning ....ABC viewer are we?
@@kevinherbert4256 I don't know, are you?
@@kevinherbert4256 ....even more yawning ....the abc is unwatchable ...apart from the weather
That interviewer is kind of HOT.
Peter Westerway is his name.
I wish labour were as good as him now...he was inspirational. Was Into equality fairness justice. Now labour is lamentably inferior. Very little major reform to enable equality.etc.
Whitlam was a hero. The 2 biggest creeps in the Labor Party, in my view, were Bob Hawke and Jim Cairns.
Yes he was a hero, because of his service during WW2, now that is a hero, sadly he was one of the last to have worn a uniform, as they disappeared our pollies have become self interested on all levels regardless of parties.
Agree re Hawke...but why Cairns...
hawke and keating
Why so?
@@chemistryset1 both were selling out the Australian worker to the NWO
Disappeared in the sea. Never found again
You must mean Harold Holt.