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Keating Turns 72

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pixel said:
The last Australian Statesman worthy of that title.
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He certainly was, he was the only modern day leader, who managed to reduce wages.
The wages accord, where the Government, with the aid of the unions stimulated the economy by holding back wages, they pulled off a 'blinder'.
 
Tisme said:
Win a poster

https://nswlabor.nationbuilder.com/paul_keating_raffle
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A Keating fanboy I see

Keating did quite a few favour for Packer from that Paul Barry book. Putting a couple of monopoly into the old goana's pockets. But then again, which PM in his right mind didn't during the rise and rise of Kerry Packer.

Apparently the cross-media rule did wonders for Kerry. So was the ban on microwave as a serious option for PayTV.

I'm starting to seriously believe that if a person has real money, politicians will do their bidding.
 
Paul takes aim at AMP and Lunch

 
Spot on Iuutzu,

and as a Godbotherer he is easily led down the pathways of others.
 
luutzu said:
I'm starting to seriously believe that if a person has real money, politicians will do their bidding.
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It's more a case of having real money and the desire to use it for political purposes.

Murdoch is a great example, he's a political interferer if ever there was one, and the British Labor Party under Tony Blair crawled to him.
 
explod said:
Spot on Iuutzu,

and as a Godbotherer he is easily led down the pathways of others.
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What's a Godbotherer?

Yea, I only came across Keating through the business bios I read on Packer and Murdoch. A true politician it seem... I give you tips on new legislation, you scratch my back; I make things easier on your monopolies without appearing like a monopoly, you make me PM.

I still remember some interview with Hewson where he said it's remarkable how Keating managed to sell himself as a working class hero, an everyday man... while painting Hewson as some snob from North Sydney when they both live down the same street.
 
SirRumpole said:
It's more a case of having real money and the desire to use it for political purposes.

Murdoch is a great example, he's a political interferer if ever there was one, and the British Labor Party under Tony Blair crawled to him.
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Yea, Murdoch is one of those rare business-political evil genius.

He doesn't care so much who's in charge, as long as they make him money. Same with Kerry Packer. They play both sides of politics.. if there is such a thing. Whoever give them the most wins their media's support.

From Paul Barry's Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer... man it's funny, and sad, how cabinet ministers were sent, from Canberra, to wait outside Packer's office whenever he calls the PM.

Barry describes how a federal gov't minister would take the first available flight from the capital, wake up real early the next morning and be seated outside Packer's office for hours and hours until the boss is ready to see him.
 
LOL - yeah - good ole sour grapes from the Packer era...

 
Nobody could give that speech today, the heckling the empty vessel and journalists, would shout it down, or critique the fact he couldn't say who the soldier was.
It is a great speech, but it is amazing it could be delivered in silence, these days that doesn't happen.
 
Tisme said:
Who in govt today could deliver this speech?

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Cannot because no one could ever have as deep and as manly man a voice as Paul does? Or cannot because they're all a bunch of bastards who'd just shrugged upon hearing the death of an Australian soldier?

Great speech.

But to be fair to today's pollys, they can't give such a speech because they know all too well who any dead solider will likely be. Service ain't random no more.
 
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