John Menadue Gave Fair Warning After 2010 Oz Election of what was to come.

Take the time to listen to an interview with John Menadue
who was..

From March 1960 to October 1967 Menadue was Private Secretary to Gough Whitlam, Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party and of the Opposition in the federal parliament (Whitlam became Leader in February 1967). He then moved into the private sector for seven years as General Manager, News Limited, Sydney, publisher of The Australian. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Menadue

 No one at the time was prepared to challenge, so stridently, MSM coverage of an election, where Julia Gillard had just scraped in, with particular emphasis on ABC, Australia's national broadcaster, still suffering from the pernicious effect of Board stacking from the time of the John Howard years of Government.

http://blogs.abc.net.au/files/john-menadue-interview.mp3