3 Comments

1. Gianna

   August 11, 2003

   and since Joh is undoubtedly senile by now, you just know there's bound to be a bunch of opportunistic relatives and hangers-on who have instigated this proceeding out of sheer greed.

2. Homer Paxton

   August 11, 2003

   I think Goughn Whitlam's description of him as a bible bashing bastard was quite true. Unfortunately few people appreciated how accurate it was.

3. Norman

   August 14, 2003

   Tex's reference to Joh's beginning slide [1959] down the road to big time corruption, re the oil deal, is the first mention of it I've seen in ages. At the time, one melbourne paper ran it before the Editor stepped in an killed the story. The Tribune also featured it briefly, then the item completely disappeared, and the rest, as they say, was history --- of corruption.