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That focus included elevating the arts into the national discussion about what it meant to be Australian. Arts funding was doubled, FM radio was introduced and radio station 2JJ was established in Sydney as part of a plan for a national youth radio network (today, it operates as Triple J). Education was a core area of reform for the Whitlam government. Measures included the abolition of university fees and establishing greater equity in the way state and private schools were funded, through the creation of a Schools Commission. According to the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney, under Gough Whitlam spending on state government schools increased more than six fold and on non-government schools it more than doubled.
Finally, during the early 1970s Whitlam era, when union power was at its zenith and wage inflation was rampant, unions successfully pushed to increase leave to four weeks – where it has remained ever since.,
The Trade Practices Act of 1974 was intended to promote competition in the economy and improve consumer protections. This was to be administered by a new body, the Trade Practices Commission. Together with the Prices Surveillance Authority it later became the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission.
The Trade Practices Act of 1974 was intended to promote competition in the economy and improve consumer protections. This was to be administered by a new body, the Trade Practices Commission. Together with the Prices Surveillance Authority it later became the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission.
That focus included elevating the arts into the national discussion about what it meant to be Australian. Arts funding was doubled, FM radio was introduced and radio station 2JJ was established in Sydney as part of a plan for a national youth radio network (today, it operates as Triple J). Education was a core area of reform for the Whitlam government. Measures included the abolition of university fees and establishing greater equity in the way state and private schools were funded, through the creation of a Schools Commission. According to the Whitlam Institute at the University of Western Sydney, under Gough Whitlam spending on state government schools increased more than six fold and on non-government schools it more than doubled.
If many Labor supporters regard the Curtin and Chifley governments as a period of great achievements and greater ambitions frustrated by conservative forces, their illusions in the Whitlam government are even more heroic. After nearly a quarter of a century of stagnant conservative rule during which Australia seemed to be a backward looking outpost of the British empire run by monarchists and reactionaries, Gough Whitlam, the Mighty Gough, broke through and during his first 12 months in office remade Australia forever.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)If many Labor supporters regard the Curtin and Chifley governments as a period of great achievements and greater ambitions frustrated by conservative forces, their illusions in the Whitlam government are even more heroic. After nearly a quarter of a century of stagnant conservative rule during which Australia seemed to be a backward looking outpost of the British empire run by monarchists and reactionaries, Gough Whitlam, the Mighty Gough, broke through and during his first 12 months in office remade Australia forever.
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