Word: gough
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...taxpayers' money. When Mollison bought Blue Poles from the American collector Ben Heller for the unprecedented sum of $2 million at 1973 exchange rates, the figure had to be made public. The issue was immediately seized on by the Australian press, whose management was bitterly opposed to Gough Whitlam's Labor government, as a prime emblem of artsy socialist mismanagement. The propaganda value squeezed from this episode certainly helped many Australians accept the virtual coup d'etat by which Whitlam's government was dismissed...