Political scandals just keep repeating themselves
Storm clouds ahead: JOSHUA BLACK looks at scandals that have rocked Australian politics...
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Storm clouds ahead: JOSHUA BLACK looks at scandals that have rocked Australian politics...
While we seem to have a steady stream of political scandals in Australia, many of them have been seen before, albeit in a different guise.
Imagine gonzo journalist Norman Gunston as the host of this country’s great constitutional crisis: before, during and beyond. The “little Aussie bleeder” as a time traveller able to be present at cataclysmic national moments feels entirely plausible, considering Gunston wielded a microphone on the steps of Old Parliament House on November 11, 1975, just as prime minister Gough Whitlam emerged to rail against the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, for sacking his government.
This new comedic musical is not just a dramatisation of the events of 1975, it is also an attempt to understand our maddening political culture.
The Dismissal turns Australia’s greatest constitutional crisis into an all-singing and all-dancing affair – and it’s told by Norman Gunston.