This is an ALP election advertisement telecast on the ABC during the 1980 federal election.
The broadcast was one of the free spots made available by law to the major political parties. It went to air on September 23, 1980.
The advertisement features Mick Young, the ALP’s member for Port Adelaide. Young was a former National Secretary of the party who was a key figure in Gough Whitlam’s campaigns. He went on to become Special Minister of State and then Minister for Immigration in the Hawke government. He retired from politics in 1988 and died in 1996.
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