{"id":13861,"date":"2025-05-01T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:01:06","slug":"to-liberate-our-talents-uplift-our-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/to-liberate-our-talents-uplift-our-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"To liberate our talents &#038; uplift our horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The inspiring vision of the Australian Labor Party in their successful campaign for the Australian Federal election of 2 December 1972 (from the campaign speech of Gough Whitlam, leader of the ALP):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOur program has three great aims. They are:<br \/>\n&#8211; to promote equality<br \/>\n&#8211; to involve the people of Australia in the decision-making processes of our land<br \/>\n&#8211; and to liberate the talents and uplift the horizons of the Australian people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>We want to give a new life and a new meaning in this new nation to the touchstone of modern democracy \u2013 to liberty, equality, fraternity.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Delivered at Blacktown Civic Centre, Western Sydney, 13 November 1972.  Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/electionspeeches.moadoph.gov.au\/speeches\/1972-gough-whitlam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museum of Australian Democracy<\/a> (Old Parliament House). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inspiring vision of the Australian Labor Party in their successful campaign for the Australian Federal election of 2 December 1972 (from the campaign speech of Gough Whitlam, leader of the ALP): Our program has three great aims. They are: &#8211; to promote equality &#8211; to involve the people of Australia in the decision-making processes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,64,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-rhetoric","p1","y2025","m05","d01","h14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13864,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions\/13864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}