It’s Time. The 1972 election
The campaign for the election eventually called for December 1972 was the most professional, long running, and media orientated that Australia had seen to that date. It reflected the reorganisation of the party's extra-parliamentary machinery, as it reflected the parliamentary leadership of Whitlam. A change in the popular attitude to Vietnam and conscription was manifest in the huge rallies of the Moratorium movement, led by Jim Cairns but supported by the whole party. Whitlam's visit…