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If the Liberals want to appeal again to aspirational Australians, they could start by taxing wealth | Judith Brett
A shift in the public’s expectation of government is under way and, as Menzies realised in the 1940s, any party seeking to win over voters must adapt to stay relevant
![According to Kennedy's sister Eunice, when Rosemary returned to the United States from the United Kingdom in 1940, she became "increasingly irritable and difficult" at the age of 22.[8] Kennedy would often experience convulsions[15] and fly into violent rages, during which she would hit and injure others.[3] After being expelled from a summer camp in western Massachusetts and staying only a few months at a Philadelphia boarding school, Kennedy was sent to a convent school in Washington, D.C.[3] Kennedy began sneaking out of the convent school at night.[16] The nuns at the convent thought that Rosemary might be involved with sexual partners and that she could contract a sexually transmitted disease[6] or become pregnant.[17] Her occasionally erratic behavior frustrated her parents; her father was especially worried that Kennedy's behavior would shame and embarrass the family and damage his and his children's political careers.[3][better source needed]
When Kennedy was 23 years old, doctors told her father that a lobotomy would help calm her mood swings and stop her occasional violent outbursts.[18][19] Joe Sr. decided that Rosemary should have a lobotomy; however, he did not inform his wife of this decision until after the procedure was completed.[20][21] The procedure took place in November 1941.[5][22] In Ronald Kessler's 1996 biography of Joe Sr., Sins of the Father, James W. Watts, who carried out the procedure with Walter Freeman (both of George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences), described the procedure to Kessler as follows:
After Rosemary was mildly sedated, "We went through the top of the head," Dr. Watts recalled. "I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch." The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xscgjalwch462y4go5fbf32c/bafkreigou46prez7diygovw3bxhqmlznjks2ycmzs5iheefw64xsgexl5y)
