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[The Conversation] - Tariffs, quotas and subsidies on agricultural and, more curiously, manufacturing products therefore remained on the Australian policy table long after the post-war world began talking free trade. The unabashedly nationalist John Gorton was even more
A great Australian voice but completely cosmopolitan
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[Stock and Land] - His grandfather was Sydney's first lord mayor, his father Geoffrey was a highly decorated World War I pilot who trained Australian flyers in World War II and died when Hughes was 12. His brother Tom was John Gorton's attorney-general but, dumped by
What price is too much for a cultured society?
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[The Australian] - Prime minister John Gorton set up the Australia Council in the late 60s and it remains the government's peak funding body for the arts. While public subsidies to manufacturing have declined from their peak in the 80s, arts subsidies have surged. Last
Whitlam v Nixon
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[The Australian] - John Gorton had complained to Lyndon Johnson about the lack of co-ordination over the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. Billy McMahon had expressed consternation at not being forewarned about the announcement that Nixon would visit China. But these
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