Max Phipps: Gough Whitlam

Quotes 

• Gough Whitlam : Congratulations, Malcolm. I look forward to some epic clashes in the House.

  Malcolm Fraser : Thank you. I look forward to meeting you... and beating you.

• Gough Whitlam : When violence is done to an important convention... to a well-established custom... then violence is done to democracy itself.

• Malcolm Fraser : If we do make up our minds at some stage that... the government is so reprehensible that, uh, an opposition must use whatever power is available to it, then, uh, I would like to find a situation in which we made that decision and, uh... Mr. Whitlam woke up one morning, finding the decision had been made, and had been caught with his pants well and truly down.

  Gough Whitlam : I am beginning to understand now why his colleagues call him the Prefect.