Paul Keating
Paul Keating
Paul John Keatingis an Australian politician who was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Labor Party from 1991 to 1996. Born in a working-class Sydney suburb and having left school at 15, Keating was first elected to the House of Representatives at 25, winning the seat of Blaxland in 1969...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 January 1944
CountryAustralia
achieve australian extraordinary
Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.
australia may opponents
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.
shows finished
The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.
ocean forever abuse
One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.
morning party people
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.
flying lows persons
This is a low flying person
years growth world
[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?
wall victory fields
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, Victory, and walked off the field.
strong nice being-nice
Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong
australia asia security
You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.
men three politician
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
running witty clever
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up
morning silly names
Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
taken mean views
I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.