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Nov. 24th, 2005 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeSo at the State Library sale a couple of weeks ago I grabbed myself some great bargains*. One of them was The Wit of Whitlam, full of Whitlam quotes. Very funny, almost bordering on camp sometimes.
At the Lord Mayor of Melbourne's banquet:
I count myself fortunate that I have been to three Lord Mayor's banquets in a row. Here in Melbourne you change your Lord Mayors quite frequently - every couple of years in fact. So while the hosts at this banquet may come and go the guests remain much the same. As I look around I see so many familiar, friendly faces - John Gorton, Bill McMahon, Dick Hamer, Sir Henry Bolte, Jack McEwen. I am beginning to feel like a vetern on these occasions. They say it's a sign of old age when Lord Mayors of Melbourne start looking young. I mean no disrespect to Councillor Ronald Walker. He's a remarkably mature 34, if I may say so. When I was his age I had not even entered Federal politics, yet here he is, already at the summit of his profession.
Anyway, it's good to return to the city of my birth. I was here only a week ago for your other great annual occasion. It is appropriate that your two grear civi festivals - the Melbourne Cup and the Lord Mayor's Banquet - are held together in Novmber. I like to be presesnt whenever Melbourne attents to her temporal and spiritual affairs. It is very convenient when they fall in the same week. I must say the events of November leave the Moomba festival for dead. This is the most impressive audience I've addressed in this city since our last election campaign. Some of you may not have been present at our campaign meetings, but I assure you they were highly successful.
Splorfle!
*
Also grabbed:
Simone de Beauvoir - The Mandarins (aka "building up my library")
Piers Anthony - Castle Roogna (reliving my childhood)
The 50-un ship (eee! oo! Gorgeous book about 17th-18th century 50-Gun ships. Lots of detailed and pretty plates)
Dictionary of world politics (yay! reference)
Fantastic Tales - Jack London
Van Gogh catalogue with plates
Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis (well,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
docbrite keeps going on about it...)
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
Tanith Lee - Red Unicorn (The only other book I've read of hers is East of Midnight but I really like that one)
Mrs Aeneas Gunn - The Little Black Princess (First published 1906. White woman writes down Native story. Looks pretty funny and mildly horrifying)
HMS Suprise - Patrick O'Brian (yippeeeeeeee! Now I have three!)
ETA: Hahaha!
Question: It has been said that you are the best thing the Labor Government has going for it. What would happen to the Government if you feel under a bus tomorrow?
Whitlam: With the improvements my government has initiated in urban transport, this is unlikely to happen.
At the Lord Mayor of Melbourne's banquet:
I count myself fortunate that I have been to three Lord Mayor's banquets in a row. Here in Melbourne you change your Lord Mayors quite frequently - every couple of years in fact. So while the hosts at this banquet may come and go the guests remain much the same. As I look around I see so many familiar, friendly faces - John Gorton, Bill McMahon, Dick Hamer, Sir Henry Bolte, Jack McEwen. I am beginning to feel like a vetern on these occasions. They say it's a sign of old age when Lord Mayors of Melbourne start looking young. I mean no disrespect to Councillor Ronald Walker. He's a remarkably mature 34, if I may say so. When I was his age I had not even entered Federal politics, yet here he is, already at the summit of his profession.
Anyway, it's good to return to the city of my birth. I was here only a week ago for your other great annual occasion. It is appropriate that your two grear civi festivals - the Melbourne Cup and the Lord Mayor's Banquet - are held together in Novmber. I like to be presesnt whenever Melbourne attents to her temporal and spiritual affairs. It is very convenient when they fall in the same week. I must say the events of November leave the Moomba festival for dead. This is the most impressive audience I've addressed in this city since our last election campaign. Some of you may not have been present at our campaign meetings, but I assure you they were highly successful.
Splorfle!
*
Also grabbed:
Simone de Beauvoir - The Mandarins (aka "building up my library")
Piers Anthony - Castle Roogna (reliving my childhood)
The 50-un ship (eee! oo! Gorgeous book about 17th-18th century 50-Gun ships. Lots of detailed and pretty plates)
Dictionary of world politics (yay! reference)
Fantastic Tales - Jack London
Van Gogh catalogue with plates
Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis (well,
docbrite keeps going on about it...)Myths of the Greeks and Romans
Tanith Lee - Red Unicorn (The only other book I've read of hers is East of Midnight but I really like that one)
Mrs Aeneas Gunn - The Little Black Princess (First published 1906. White woman writes down Native story. Looks pretty funny and mildly horrifying)
HMS Suprise - Patrick O'Brian (yippeeeeeeee! Now I have three!)
ETA: Hahaha!
Question: It has been said that you are the best thing the Labor Government has going for it. What would happen to the Government if you feel under a bus tomorrow?
Whitlam: With the improvements my government has initiated in urban transport, this is unlikely to happen.
