He was well out of the public eye by the time I came to live here, but I have always been fascinated by how SA went from having the same conservative premier for nearly thirty years to him. It's like everyone had a sudden, collective brain explosion. It must have felt like a brain explosion - or maybe just like someone opening a window after a long time shut up inside.

Still I suppose the federal government did a similar thing - so long under Menzies and then Gough.