FED: Gotto, the wiggly shapely secretary

AAP General News (Australia)
01-01-2000
FED: Gotto, the wiggly shapely secretary

CANBERRA, Jan 1 AAP - "The political manoeuvre used to get me out of office wiggles,
it's shapely and its name is Ainsley Gotto."

So said Dudley Erwin, the poor performing minister for air ditched by Prime Minister
John Gorton in 1969.

Erwin, whose outburst was described as "schoolboy peevishness" by Gough Whitlam biographer
Graham Freudenberg, went further in some other media comments about Ms Gotto.

"Shapely, wiggly and cold-blooded," he told the Daily Mirror, adding that Ms Gotto,
the principal private secretary to Mr Gorton, ruled with …