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• W797007536 abstract "Dino Hodge, Don Dunstan, Intimacy & Liberty: a political biography, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2014, pp. xviii + 410, illus., $39.95. Reviewed by Malcolm SaundersApart from the Liberal Country League's (LCL) Sir Thomas Playford (1896-1981), no premier of South Australia has aroused so much interest or become so identified with the state as the Australian Labor Party's (ALP) Donald Allan Dunstan (1926-1999). Neither C. C. Kingston in the late nineteenth century, nor John Bannon or Mike Rann in the late twentieth century, could hold a candle to him, even though the latter were marginally longer-serving premiers. Dunstan was fortunate, insofar as he came to and stayed in power (1967-68 and 1970-79) in the wake of Playford's record-breaking premiership of more than 26 years, during which the latter's conservative governments were almost wholly concerned with industrialising South Australia's economy and reducing its dependence upon agriculture and other primary industries. Consequently, throughout the long Playford era, a wide range of issues to do with civil liberties, human rights, the constitution, education, the arts, Aboriginal people, consumers and more, were neglected. Yet, these were precisely those areas of South Australian life in which Dunstan was most interested, upon which he largely built his career and which has allowed us to look back on the 1970s as 'the Dunstan decade'. We now view the Dunstan years as having witnessed the most significant social and political (as distinct from economic) reforms in South Australian history.Dunstan, himself, was a major factor in the ALP's ability to finally regain office in March 1965 and, save for a two-year break in 1968-70, to retain control over the state's Treasury benches until September 1979. Although physically unprepossessing - he was short and weedy - Dunstan's abilities were tremendous. By the late 1960s, he had become an experienced parliamentarian, a compelling orator and a master at handling the media, particularly television. Charming, intellectual and forthright; with a rich, deep, resonating voice cultivated at Adelaide's elite St. Peter's College for boys and in the years spent as an amateur actor at school and Adelaide University, he was a superb performer who had a flair for the dramatic and the ostentatious. Dunstan cannot be dismissed as a mere showman, however, because he so obviously, indeed passionately, believed in what he advocated. Consequently, he built up a large personal following in his inner-suburban seat of Norwood, and a huge following throughout the state. For countless Labor supporters, it was a pleasure to see this extraordinarily gifted man demolish his opponents in parliament, in television studios, over the radio or on the hustings.It is remarkable, then, why no one has yet published a scholarly, comprehensive, book-length biography of South Australia's most charismatic, colourful and controversial political leader. Over the decades, political scientists have analysed the Dunstan era, but not the man himself. Having said that, there are, as the author of the book under review points out, several biographies of Dunstan currently in the making. In a sense, Dino Hodge has pre-empted them all. But, his is not a typical biography, in that its main concern is to depict Dunstan as a champion of the rights of a minority group - that is, gays - and what he achieved for them before, during, and after his premierships, indeed, right up until his death in 1999. In fact, both the book's title and sub-titles are misleading because much of it doesn't mention Dunstan at all. A huge amount of space is devoted to either the emergence of 'a homosexual culture' in South Australia from the 1910s to the 1990s, or to a police culture that not merely allowed, but encouraged, the persecution and prosecution of homosexual men (but not, incidentally, women). The melding together of these three themes is one of the book's great virtues.Hodge takes us to a hitherto barely known mode of mid-century life in South Australia. …" @default.
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