More from Paul Keating

  1. Where members opposite all come a gutser is in the fact that members on this side all think that we were born to rule you. It has been ingr…
  2. The Placido Domingo of Australian politics.
  3. If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy…
  4. It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The al…
  5. From this day onwards, Howard will wear his leadership like a crown of thorns, and in the parliament I'll do everything to crucify him.
  6. I would forbid him going going to the Senate, to account to this unrepresentative swill over there...
  7. This is the sweetest victory of all. This is a victory for the true believers; the people who, in difficult times, have kept the faith.
  8. A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to b…

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