Wow, wow, wow... I recall this one. These are a magnificent contribution to what's "out there", Greg. I'm one of thousands who will be grateful to you for putting this on TH-cam. Young Aussies take note: parliamentary debate in Australia wasn't always bland and sanitized. Keating owned the Opposition, and come the '96 election the voters whacked him where the Opposition could not. It was analyzed in the aftermath and has informed the public behaviour of Prime Ministers ever since. Australians apparently tired of watching the Opposition be belted intellectually, daily, by this man, and belted him at the ballot box since the Opposition could not lay a glove on him. It seems Australians would prefer to be led by a man of unimpressive intellect, as opposed to a person who knows they have the measure of any world leader, intellectually. It will be our undoing, I fear. Humility should not be high on the list of traits we're after in the woman or man representing our country...Yet the focus groups says it outranks traits like balls and IQ. We want our leaders to be common men, apparently. Ergo we (the electorate) prefer meek half-wits over intellectual head kickers, at the helm of our country.
@@BenjaHancock with a Republic, no more queen...pivot to Asia...maybe no Australian troops in Iraq? Australia would have benefitted from long-term thinking, not short-termism like Howard and his squandered mining boom on tax cut giveaways.
If Kim Beazley did the same approach in 1998 ("if the Coalition wins in the lower house, Labor will not oppose the GST") - John Howard would have been kicked out after one term. Sadly
People hate excellent leadership qualities because they know they can’t measure up, so they out of spite, envy & jealousy pull him down. They (populace) then put someone they can relate with (Howard), in place to try and emulate. Find out the hard way they cannot replicate so they disappear and expect Labor Party (One True Australian Party), to get them out of disaster.
Well didn't PK give it to them. And rightly so. Self interest always prevails over National Interest when it comes to the Tories and they deserved his invective to a tee.
We really need another Labor leader with the acumen of Keating. Albo doesn't have the killer instinct or the rapier mind of Keating. Though as it stands with the current members of the Liberal and National parties, he doesn't need one. He can out think them while asleep.
The only right thing for Kerr to do was to tell Gough he had a letter prepared to sack him - and put it on Gough to either sack the GG and wear the political fallout for doing so, or accept his sacking Not telling Whitlam what he planned to do was an outrageous breach of constitutional convention and Kerr deserves everything he gets in the history books
Wow, wow, wow... I recall this one.
These are a magnificent contribution to what's "out there", Greg.
I'm one of thousands who will be grateful to you for putting this on TH-cam.
Young Aussies take note: parliamentary debate in Australia wasn't always bland and sanitized. Keating owned the Opposition, and come the '96 election the voters whacked him where the Opposition could not.
It was analyzed in the aftermath and has informed the public behaviour of Prime Ministers ever since. Australians apparently tired of watching the Opposition be belted intellectually, daily, by this man, and belted him at the ballot box since the Opposition could not lay a glove on him.
It seems Australians would prefer to be led by a man of unimpressive intellect, as opposed to a person who knows they have the measure of any world leader, intellectually.
It will be our undoing, I fear. Humility should not be high on the list of traits we're after in the woman or man representing our country...Yet the focus groups says it outranks traits like balls and IQ. We want our leaders to be common men, apparently.
Ergo we (the electorate) prefer meek half-wits over intellectual head kickers, at the helm of our country.
It's a great shame Keating didn't win 1996, we would be so advanced as a country that it would be unrecognisable.
@@BenjaHancock with a Republic, no more queen...pivot to Asia...maybe no Australian troops in Iraq? Australia would have benefitted from long-term thinking, not short-termism like Howard and his squandered mining boom on tax cut giveaways.
“I’ve said I want to do you slowly, and slowly you will be done.”
LMAO! I never saw this before! Thanks for posting
What a brazen manoeuvre. A brave leader.
One of his great moves...
If Kim Beazley did the same approach in 1998 ("if the Coalition wins in the lower house, Labor will not oppose the GST") - John Howard would have been kicked out after one term. Sadly
Genius play by Keating.
Jeeze he was good. It's actually depressing to look back see how good he was, knowing that in 1996 people wanted someone more simple.
People hate excellent leadership qualities because they know they can’t measure up, so they out of spite, envy & jealousy pull him down.
They (populace) then put someone they can relate with (Howard), in place to try and emulate. Find out the hard way they cannot replicate so they disappear and expect Labor Party (One True Australian Party), to get them out of disaster.
Well didn't PK give it to them. And rightly so.
Self interest always prevails over National Interest when it comes to the Tories and they deserved his invective to a tee.
...and then there was Johnny Coward with Meg Lees and the whole sell out.
We really need another Labor leader with the acumen of Keating. Albo doesn't have the killer instinct or the rapier mind of Keating. Though as it stands with the current members of the Liberal and National parties, he doesn't need one. He can out think them while asleep.
Jim Chalmers is a student of Keating and hopefully grown into a strong and confident treasurer and get some Keatingisms back in there
@@rossyeaah I didnt know that about Chalmers but I have often thought during question time about how much he reminds me of Keating
Funny how history repeats (less than 50years) from the liberal party!
Did this bloke predict Australias future????
I think so
Kangaroo Courts
Who is the lady in yellow sitting behind the PM? You always see her but I’m just wondering who she is if anyone knows?
I was wrong. She is Mary Crawford, the MP for Forde.
He was right. The GST is a regressive tax that disproportionately burdens low income earners and the poor.
... pathetic liberal party policy, at it's worst.
I have reaches around the world, be warned!!!
No Paul it's unrepresentive swill
Sir John Kerr did what was right.
Only a conservative says that. If the victim was a conservative govt. That statement would be how the monarchy betrayed us conservatives
The only right thing for Kerr to do was to tell Gough he had a letter prepared to sack him - and put it on Gough to either sack the GG and wear the political fallout for doing so, or accept his sacking
Not telling Whitlam what he planned to do was an outrageous breach of constitutional convention and Kerr deserves everything he gets in the history books
the queens cur was a CIA pawn, referred to as "our man Kerr"
He was a drunk and a fool., properly dying in disgrace. Both Whitlam and Fraser despised him as a failed sychophantic snob.
Only an enemy to democracy would tout such nonsense