Paul Keating in conversation with Kerry O'Brien 

The best thing that ever happened to Australia love this man

I am living better because of Super Annuation. Thank you Mr Keating.

"Prime Ministers are very useful to a Treasurer (much laughter)...but they are no longer useful if they don't do the tricks. So when Bob stopped doing the tricks, I had to do Bob in."

Brilliant Man. We are still benefiting from his policies today.

love this man. Always will. When I was staying in Australia in the early 1990s, I used to tune on the TV whenever he answered the opposition questions. Australia was indeed lucky to have Hawke, Keating at the helm. But, in the end, Howard got elected. A real tragedy as he Howard opposed all moves towards a republic and a formal agreement with the Aborigines.

I'm not Australian but have a great respect for Keating. He was such an eloquent and passionate speaker. His quips and his witty retorts in parliament are truly astounding. Great guy and he's everything a politician should be.

The older Paul Keating gets the better he was .. just ask him.

1st President of the Republic

Singularly the best political duo, Hawke and Keating. We miss such extraordinary visionary and capability. I’m disappointed we haven’t yet got to a Republic…

Keating has such vitality and confidence, it’s infectious. His admiration for Churchill is a little surprising. Churchill was a successful war time prime minister and a disastrous peace time minister and prime minister. He was a remarkable writer and orator, but his part in the 1926 general strike made him a hated figure in Britain. He believed in the class system. He saw the working class as cannon fodder for the Empire to exploit, and this at a time when the term “working class” had real meaning and comprised millions of his fellow citizens. He was an imperialist, monarchist and his meddling in Iran in the 50s haunts us still. Eisenhower rejected Churchill’s pleas to delay the D day landings, and he was right. A delay would have been disastrous. Churchill’s “moral clarity” is stretching a point. He was right about Britain needing to re arm to combat a threat from Nazism, but he was wrong on a multiplicity of other issues and he displayed an extraordinary contempt for those of a different class. His ambitious were always displayed in the arena of foreign policy and militarism. His domestic policy ambitions were almost nonexistent. Ironically Churchill lived very much beyond his means and enjoyed substantial patronage through a secret trust, established by his rich admirers, something that we would regard today as corruption He was appointed PM because the Labour Party under Clement Attlee would not serve under lord Halifax (the preferred candidate of the Conservative parliamentary party and a person who still supported appeasement). Attlee demonstrated far more moral clarity as a peace time PM than Churchill. His 1945 government created on the ruins of a bankrupt Britain was a staggering achievement. Churchill opposed the formation of the national health service and the nationalization of Britain’s vital infrastructure. Keating is right in his admiration of FDR, he was a giant of a man, deeply concerned with the welfare of others.

Galway Ireland.

Keating is always good value to listen to,

Simply the best,

The best prime minister of Australian

47:30

A Republic, a new flag and recognition of our First Nations people 👏👏👏 We miss you PK

48:23

I think this was even better than the TV interviews

Amazing to hear Mr Keating 👏

Loved it ! Love You Paul J Keating