Forty years since ‘It’s Time’
Messages for Gough
By Michael Gurr
The moment comes well into the night. Jonathan Biggins is at the lectern. The satirist isn’t joking as he holds up a walking stick and tells us that it has been found in the Ladies’. Would anyone like to claim it? The occasion is the 40th anniversary of Gough Whitlam’s “It’s Time” speech, delivered here in Sydney’s Blacktown Civic Centre on 13 November 1972. There are a fair few