ABC Local Radio, Gibber’s Creek, 5 pm, 11 November 1975
‘We want Gough! We want Gough!’
A crowd of more than 2,000 people has already gathered outside Parliament House this afternoon . . .
MATILDA
Her world had ended. That bright dream begun when she was twelve years old, a world where women voted, where every person no matter what the colour of their skin had the same rights throughout the country. The hope that had forged her father and ended in his death. The world she thought had come, and in her lifetime.
Gone.
No! She would not accept it! The people of Australia would not accept it. Fraser and Kerr had won a small, sordid battle, nothing more.
The war was still there to win.
Matilda grabbed her stick, and hauled herself to her feet, startling Maxi from her doze, then limped towards the phone.