“I see two powerful forces pulling at you,’ said Adams in his gentle, challenging way. ‘One is your public, politics, that whole arena. The other is the arts, beauty, sensuality. Which these days, as you now step off one role into another, which as the stronger pull?” “Well… I think the latter’s always had the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Paul Keating'
A radio interview between Phillip Adams and Paul Keating playing classical music:“Goodbye Jerusalem: Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider” – Bob Ellis
September 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Australian Labor Party, Culture, Politics
An Exhausting Way to Make a Living – “Goodbye Jerusalem: Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider” – Bob EllisCiting from “The Things We Did Last Summer”, 1983
September 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Australian Labor Party, Politics
‘You know, it’s a strange life we lead in politics,’ Paul Keating said, confiding in me, or seeming to, a week before the sudden calling of the 1983 election. ‘When Parliament’s sitting you have the equivalent of five serious fights a day. But I don’t mind that,’ he said, and looked at me with amused [...]
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We Know – “Goodbye Jerusalem: Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider” – Bob Ellis
September 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Australian Labor Party, Politics, Quotes
‘We at least in the Labor Party know,’ Keating told the Evatt Foundation two years before, ‘that we are part of a big story, which is also the story of our country. And what do they know?’
"Shut Up and Listen and You Might Learn Something", Edna Carew and Patrick Cook
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Australian, Politics, Quotes
Synopsis: The bite and bile of the greatest Treasurer Australia has ever had. My Take: Published in 1990, this collection of Keating quotations comes from the golden era of PJK. The period before he became PM and was forced to moderate (at least to some extent) his more extreme instincts for public, rhetorical bloodshed. Most [...]
