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Mr Y and Mr Gorton.
THE BOND between the Canberra press gallery and federal politicians always tends to be unhealthily close, but rarely has it been so incestuous than during the hectic few days in March 1971 when Prime Minister John Gorton, after three crisis-ridden years in office and fearing that he would be outvoted on the floor of the House of Representatives, chose to stand down as federal Liberal Party leader.
The media was no impassive observer of the Prime Minister's sudden demise. In March 1971 Gorton was widely seen as the victim of a malevolent plot masterminded by the old-style press baron Sir Frank Packer (attempts to suggest that the Fairfax press was a fellow ...
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