[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?
If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Aus… - Paul Keating
If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Aus…
- Paul Keating
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you. - Paul Keating
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience. - Paul Keating
The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.
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 … - Paul Keating
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 …
I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage. - Paul Keating
I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government. - Paul Keating
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.
Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong - Paul Keating
Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the… - Paul Keating
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the…
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 lo… - Paul Keating
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 lo…
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