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Brown Study

Brown Study

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

Troy Bramston (‘Gorton vs McMahon: the secret memo’ 30 August) joins a long line of journalists who keep repeating the official story of how John Gorton ceased to be Prime Minister of Australia in 1971, in the course of a moving narrative that culminates in Gorton’s Roman suicide by using his casting vote against himself.

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