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[Value Collector]

Gough Whitlam ????

in Brisbane it was then Lord Mayor Clem Jones and what is more he did NOT take a salary ( he had a real estate/property develop business at the same time , so any improvement in land/house values in general echoed in his company profits )

and BTW Gough Whitlam was elected Prime Minister in 1972 .. i remember that very very well ( it gave me choices on whether i was going to be involved in the Vietnam War ( he cancelled conscription .. and the potential of being involved in a very brutal war )

Clem gave us sewerage , bitumen road , concrete gutters for road drainage , a sewerage system , a rare moment of true progress from a ALP politician

but yes out-back toilets , dirt roads , unsealed gutters ,and many other amenities were a feature of Brisbane at the start of his leadership ( even water-tanks were reasonably common in city allotments )

Yes, you are right. each state did have their own program, Brisbanes was lead by Clem. However the states where slow apparently, so Gough introduced the National sewage program to speed things up, and reduced they backlog of homes on the waitlists.

My wife's father was born in 1960, and he didn't get running hotter in his childhood home until he was a teenager , the good old days hey...