Gorton – Economic Nationalist

25 October 2020 thesumofpower Australian Prime Ministers 0

Canberra Press Gallery journalist Gay Davidson (1939 – 2004) was in 1980 John Gorton’s official biographer. She talks of Gorton’s economic nationalism. Photograph of Davidson outside of Old Parliament House sourced from The Melbourne Press Club’s The Australian Media Hall of Fame.

Photograph National Archives of Australia (Creator Australian News and Information Bureau, Canberra) A1500, K18522

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