Our PM has long been regarded as a man of piercing genius, especially by media admirers whose faculties are a good deal less sharp. Today, the fortieth anniversary of the Whitlam dismissal, it is worth re-visiting the words of the man who denounced Sir John Kerr and prophesied a surge in Labor's support

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