Deceptions

The proposition to  build a shrine to the 'Camelot years(?)' of the Whitlam government should not amaze anyone who has taken notice of the incredible narcissism exhibited by the Gillard government.
This blindness to reality appears to be a mirror image of the Obama debacle and perhaps it explains why Gillard and Obama seem to recognise 'familiar spirits' in each other.
The following excerpt is from an article by David Limbaugh:

Obama is so self-satisfied that in his mind, his legacy was largely written before he stepped into office. So fervent is his ideological belief system that even objective evidence of his dismal policy failures doesn't shake his confidence in his prescriptions. Because the facts don't square up with his pre-inauguration narrative, he simply changes the facts to make them conform, essentially saying: "The economy isn't good, but it's much better than it would have been had I not been in office. To the extent it's still bad, it's Bush's fault."

It sounds suspiciously like the Gillard/Swan hypothesis.