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(More customer reviews)A non-Australian reading this might wonder at the vagaries of the Australian political system. The author recounts the travails of the short lived Whitlam government. They took power after decades in opposition. With grand plans for many social changes. To some extent they succeeded.
However Australia has traditionally been fairly evenly balanced between the parties. And the Senate had the Liberals and Nats in a slim majority. But enough of one to block Whitlam's Supply bill. Hence his government was running out of funds to pay its bills. The book's focus is on the tumultuous happenings of 1975. Culminating in Kerr's dismissal of Whitlam and the landslide victory of the Liberals a few weeks later.
The book conveys the level of passion around those events and in the election. Something never before seen in Australian politics. Perhaps for the best, given its divisiveness.
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