Love PJK? Let the world know! www.redbubble.com/people/AusQ... Peter Reith references Paul Keating's 'banana republic' speech and asks if things have improved since then. March 6th 1991
Keating was the people's champion! He was Australia's politics champion! If it was not for the Labour policies, we would be slaves here, without medical insurance, superannuation, annual leave or that bit of dole & family assistance.
I've never known a better PM than Paul Keating. His grasp of statistics and his parliamentary oratory has never been matched. Amazing, as his highest level of education was technical college. A true leader, who put Australia and ALL Australians first.
People of ability educate themselves irrespective of opportunity. I think in this case I was highlighting the fact that many of his political opposites were university educated and one had a doctorate in economics (a fact that did not help him in an election against Paul Keating).
@thomaslawrence2488he is saying that it’s remarkable how someone whose highest education was only technical college not a fancy university like Oxford was able to be so smart and witty is a testament to his ability and his ability to self educate himself. Remarkable ani’t it. Paul Keating a witty fighter with a great intellect!
Essentially J W Howard left a dead debt that did nothing for Australia as treasurer and then squandered the opportunity to build Australia during boom times. Priding himself on surpluses that fell in his lap from mining boom while the country needed infrastructure and support of sectors that would outlast the mining boom. Howard was focussed on reelections due to his sweeteners that the Australian voter were chuffed about. Howard couldn’t conjure up anything for the Australian economy when treasurer but gleefully rode the slipstream of hawke and keatings economic restructure!
That would be the Right Honourable John Curtin in February 1942 when he told THE British Bulldog where to stick it on the return of Aussie troops from fallen Singapore.
Shame we didn't get as many years of a Keating PM'ship as we sadly got of the fucking Member for Bennelong, the country would have ended up in a far better place I'm sure of it.
Nick Hansen Really? You don't remember the recession Australia had to have and interest rates over 20% or his public asset sales of Qantas, commonwealth bank and his ballooning budget deficits? Or his pathetic failed attempt to change our flag. He cheated workers out of their retirement savings by bringing in superannuation which now means workers are no longer guaranteed a certain payment when they retire. He also floated the dollar which means it's becoming more worthless and causing our cost of living to constantly rise and he got away with it. Paul Cheating was a cunning, nasty politician with a filthy mouth. Howard never behaved like him.
@@dimitriosfreedom9282 I don't know where to start dude...but how about this - a lower dollar means our exports are more competitive overseas. That means we sell more "stuff". Like more of the coal and iron ore (remember the late 90s mining boom?) the government cut of which Howard and Costello then gave out to tax payers in lower taxes and middle class handouts...that's just one. PJK best PM in our modern history...Superannuation actually saves the government money....oops that's a 2nd one...cheers
@@seanp7871 Yes this... @Dimitrios Freedom I don't know where to start dude...but how about this - a lower dollar means our exports are more competitive overseas. That means we sell more "stuff". Like more of the coal and iron ore (remember the late 90s mining boom?) the government cut of which Howard and Costello then gave out to tax payers in lower taxes and middle class handouts...that's just one. PJK best PM in our modern history...Superannuation actually saves the government money....oops that's a 2nd one...cheers
Gee he was sharp. Fascinating to read Howard's autobiography, where he actually agrees with everything Keating said here, except Howard credits Hawke not Keating for it.
Interesting piece in Howard’s autobiography where he mentions Keating was the only person to contact him in regard to the welfare of Howard’s very ill wife at one stage. Seeing Howard has next to nothing good to say about Keating, I think Keating’s gesture had to be acknowledged by Howard in the book. So Howard, though no friend of Keating’s, at least had the honour to basically thank him publicly his political and personal enemy for something Howard obviously saw as befitting. A minor point, perhaps, but I think it shows that politicians can act decently, both Keating and Howard in return for his genuine gesture. Different breed back then, maybe?
Kurt W, I think you're being a little naughty with the facts. The GST simply replaced existing sales tax which was applied differently. It definitely captures a great amount of revenue from the black economy, but it was far from the sole reason Howard enjoyed a robust economy. The hard reforms applied in the Hawke/Keating years were most definitely bearing fruit by the time Howard came to power. Then Howard/Costello spent the best part of the following decade giving it all away by bribing the populace with tax cuts & giveaways. Did you possibly get your opinions from a Howard biography?
Hahaha "put with all the studied sincerity of a police court solicitor" & "bequeathed to us by Your indolence",...priceless! Razor-sharp wit not since equalled!
You know when PK was listening to Reith’s question, the old computer was ticking over, he went back through the entire file, pulled out his favourite Kookaburra bat and launched it into the Members Stand.
Migrated to Australia on the basis of this sort of speeches by their leaders, and reading about Whitlham. Oh well, Australia fucked itself up badly. :(
Something Keating said on a phone interview with John Laws. Basically saying that the changes they were making were necessary or Australia would become a second rate economy, like a banana republic.
Peter Reith and his mates were a bunch of baffoons and every time they opened their mouths to the greatest Orator Australian politics has seen, they made themselves look stupid. PJK teased, taunted and attacked them with facts and kept them where they belonged
Dude, he realised we would never be able to compete against the lower wages and production costs of, mainly, our Asian neighbours. We now have other industries such as a huge 'Service' industry, Tertiary Education (well we did before COVID) industry. We did have a car industry (admittedly massively subsidised) but Joe Hocking dared them to quit, which duly enough they did. We could have a Massive renewables (incl manufacturing) industry if the current Government had an Industry Policy and was not so crippled by it's ideological.
