Love PJK? Let the world know! www.redbubble.... Treasurer Paul Keating blows his top at John Hewson and the Coalition front bench. Thursday, 18 April 1991
“The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on …What we have got is a dead carcass, swinging in the breeze, but nobody will cut it down to replace him.” (on John Howard)
I was in those days a Liberal voter but I acknowledge that anyone who tried to take on Paul Keating was up against a totally immovable force. The guy was brilliant.
The memories, those wonderful memories. Robust Debate? It's Parliament Mr. Speaker. Today's Politicians' are useless! Since when has Australia become Politically Correct? l must have missed the memo.
there was only one Keating. The thing was, at the time Australia didnt realise how bloody good they had it. If only someone could get him back into politics :)
Paul Keating is without peer. Nobody in the HOR these days come even close to him in political skill nor setting things in place to ensure Australia prospers as a country.
Penny Wong is as good but not so aggressive ... and Doug Cameron is another strong one he is like a dog with a bone and his grip gets stronger everytime the opposition try’s to free themselves .
On days when the lying libs corruption gets me down I watch Paul on her to cheer me up .... if we played this clip and replaced Hewsons name with turnbulls name it would fit perfectly !!
For all that happened between Keating and Hawke over the years, Keating said that he had great admiration, friendship, fondness and respect for Hawke. Here it is for us all to see, defending his friend and laying waste to his accusers.
Well said, the fact that Hawke met with Keating shortly before his death and asked him to speak at his funeral tells you all you need to know, they had a falling out over leadership but that couldn’t eclipse the remarkable political and indeed personal partnership they built, and what that achieved for Australia.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall at PJKs house that time Tone started talking about carefully scripted responses being the only thing you could take as actual fact.
took PJK a while to get going but once he did, he was absolutely unstoppable. i honestly miss this kind of conviction from all sides of politics today.
David Tron me too whenever I was at home sick at school or I’d ask my mum to record it for me. He was whip smart, articulate and a joy to watch. I miss him.
Mr Keating might have lied about his education.No one leaving school at fourteen could speak so well and with mind of internet speed even before internet was created.
I was 26yo when Paul Keating let rip on this day. Back then I didn’t have the political intelligence to understand what was being said. Now, I can hear everything. Paul Keating is perhaps Australia’s sharpest ever politician. Intelligent, quick-witted with strong moral grounding. An all-round good bloke.
@@DavidTron63 a true patriot .... Who refused to do the Gallipoli bullshit! He considered Kakoda our finest moment .... The right call ..... Adding Tobruk might be in there as well.
You’d have to get up pretty early to catch Paul Keating out. He was a great talker, straight shooter telling it like it is. He was also very funny. This was a true Labor leader.
Paul Keating PM was heads and shoulders above the rest of the politicians in our current parliament. Our current, totally pathetic PM could learn more than a thing or two from him.
I have read full bios on almost every Australian Prime Minister. Honestly, Keating was up there with the best. For the successful Hawke years, for me, it was a dual leadership deal, with Keating as backbone. I love a politician with backbone.
If you liked him you’d say that he’s saying what everyone’s thinking, and that he cares about the country enough to really speak his mind. If you hated him you’d call him immature and unprofessional. But let’s face it if politics wasn’t like this who would pay attention?
I don’t know of any modern labor politician that would accurately and sharply call out corruption on the level of mining deals, gold industry interests and the like, that keating did. With recollections of meetings, transgressions, sequence of events like what a leader says and what then happens to them by other players in the party with those connections to lobbyists in play.. and no one was able to say keating misinformed the house because it was always the truth and something adverse to what he would do. He was so in tune with the machinations of the lnp and their dirt, and the only one to go digging that deep nowadays knowing where to look and what to look for and call ot out for exactly what it is in detail, is friendlyjordies.
This is one of the most inspiring politicians Australia has ever produced, erudite, organised & fearless.... l am proud to be a Keating disciple and voter..
I noticed Beazley sitting in chair next to Hawke. And Reith next to Hewson. I don't think I've ever seen any pollie sit there before. It's usually empty. What's Kim and Peter up to? Who gets to sit there it it's not the Deputy Prime Minister or the treasurer or it's rank equivalent on the other side?
why can't we get a good hollywood biopic of paul keating's life, it would be absolutely badass I'm sure.. hopefully one day, jack lang would be epic in it, also bob hawke and gough whitlam, that would be so badass I'm sure, some really great politicians there, we need to be reminded more of these great examples of social policy imo
7:22 I love the guy behind his left shoulder with a look of 'he actually went there!'. I'm so disappointed I was only 11 years old when Keating was last PM. Missed out on the best PM of the last 30 years
PJK vs Hewson is brilliant to watch. A truly brilliant, visonary mind vs a dull witted LNP hack. Hewson is so far out of his depth here it's not funny.
