Status Updates From Paul Keating: The Big-pictu...

-Competition? Several wanted to challenge but never did
-PK had lots of baggage, lots seen him as arrogant
-Election called early 96, polls neck and neck but fluctuated, PK catches up, JH seen as reliable, RW received letter (fake) this is the end, press conference but JH denies and leads the a stall and the great defeat that followed, landslide election, main problem the longevity in office

-Relationship with Indonesia, defence agreement,
-Keating and Blair, how he impacted New Labour
-His turn away from day to day politics was his end, his antipathy towards the media after 93 was the end, chance in appearance in parl also seen as his greatest powers limited

-Republic commissions started, talks to Queen, trying to lead nation to an Australian future, plan: Parliament chooses president, referendum planned before 01
-94 economic recovery, Working Nation, long term unemployed, yet rises 4 time interest rates
-Creative Nation, a historical approach, Racial Hatred Bill
-Still disliked by public seen as arrogant, big picture yet ignorant of the small factors that got Pk ther

-93 budget disaster
-Dawkins resigns replaced by Willis
-Reform of pay policy, no longer one suit fits all

-Redfern, political capital spent, trying to recon with ab grievances, settle on land titles, pastroral leases, historic yet may have cost election in 96, cajoling and shaming to pass senate and agreement with ab

-Drop in company tax, increase in child payments, large deficit
-Sweetest of Victories, election 1993, many thought would lose, behind in polls, 3 debates,
-Change in top office DR leaves instability follows, dinner after election pompous, claim to be beginning of end, claims only won as an anti vote and not a plus vote, PMC is dysfunctional leads to complications, debates about how he chaired cab

-Lizard of Oz
-View of history, questioning classical view, Menzies, where does Aust lie?
-One Nation, war against Fightback!, PK in parl, attacks and famous phrases, GST a vice around JH’s neck
-ON overestimates economic comeback, deficit skyrockets, economy in bad shape, question not who broke but who will fix
-Polling improving, shaky, PK leading, attacking, galvanising his troops

-APEC
-Push to creat economic forum for Pacific leaders
-Seen as greatest foreign policy success
-Now annual, lasting legacy