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I agree Menzies should have been included in the poll, but given that Menzies retired nearly 7 years before Whitlam was elected, I'm not sure that he can be blamed entirely for how Australia was in 1972. And with 2% unemployment some look on the Menzies era as a golden period of prosperity...

Option C arose as part of the 1985 Tax Summit. Keating was allowed to run on this for a while but Hawke and the ACTU reined him in. You might have been thinking of the Asprey tax review of 1975, which as Ross Gittens pointed out, eventually got implemented though it took time...

Pretty much my point in Post #9 but expressed better above. To test this more fully, I'd have included Curtin, Chifley, Menzies and Gorton (and if you insist, McEwan) in the list. And the same for the 'best PM' poll. As personal memory fades or is confined to older people only, history...

Although numbers are still small, the survey shows that the more recent a leader is the stronger anti opinion there is. This may or may not be due to the current incumbent. But probably not - vehement opinions have also been expressed against all previous leaders. Maybe 50% of this forum...