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Paul Keating

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

Achieve

Australian

Extraordinary

For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he’s dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it’s like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they’re about a mile underground. He’d have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.

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Kevin

Lasts

Good economics is good politics.

Business

Economics

I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Imagination

Thinking

Two

I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn’t like them but they’ll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

People

Reform

Thinking

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy… a banana republic.

Australia

Done

Government

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

Block

Land

Titles

In the end it’s the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia’s changed inexorably for good, for the better.

Australia

May

Opponents

In the end, rational policy is always good.

Ends

Policy

Rational

John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He’s at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

Guy

Police

Thinking

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Done

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Economics

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Quotes by Paul Keating

Paul Keating

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

Good economics is good politics.

I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn’t like them but they’ll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy… a banana republic.

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

In the end it’s the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia’s changed inexorably for good, for the better.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He’s at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

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