Iola Mathews
$39.99
Monash University Publishing

Former Labor Party advisor and MP Race Mathews began his autobiography before Alzheimer’s disease took its cruel grip and he ceased working on the memoirs in 2018.
His wife, noted feminist journalist and campaigner – and one-time PSA CPSU NSW Women’s Conference guest speaker – Iola Mathews completed the project.
The result is a look back at the rise of the groundbreaking Whitlam Government and its subsequent fall.

Race Mathews worked with Gough Whitlam as the future Prime Minister wrested control of the Labor Party, appealing to a wider cross-section of voters.
Mr Mathews was elected the MP for the Victoria seat of Casey when Mr Whitlam won power, remaining an MP until the electoral bloodbath after the Dismissal. He was later a Victorian state MP.