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Piers Akerman (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Former PM Paul Keating’s barbed tongue is legendary.
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Swan must release forecasts
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
So Swan would have to be very careful about what updates he gets privately from Treasury – lest he drift into Paul Keating terminologically inexact territory. With the MYEFO numbers not formally updated, he can still say as he did to Laurie Oakes on Nine on Sunday: "At the moment we're forecasting a modest surplus."
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Living in History
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
By Chris Patten Chris Patten is a former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Chairman of the British Conservative Party, and was the last British Governor of Hong Kong. He is currently Chancellor of Oxford University and a member of the British House of Lords. LONDON – I recently took part in a public debate with Paul Keating, [...]
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Living in history
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Chris Patten is a former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Chairman of the British Conservative Party, and was the last British Governor of Hong Kong. He is currently Chancellor of Oxford University and a member of the British House of Lords. By Chris Patten LONDON – I recently took part in a public debate with Paul Keating, Australia’s former prime minister. He is an interesting...
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Program boned, but journos take top prize
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... a long battle with cancer, aged 68. Don Watson, a speech writer for former prime minister Paul Keating, won the Walkley prize for best non-fiction book for American Journeys.
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The plucky country
The Australian (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... 1989, and he did so after he won the critical support of South Korean president Roh Tae-woo. Then Paul Keating co-operated intimately with his South Korean counterpart, Kim Young-sam, in the politics of APEC. Hawke and Keating were dealing with very confident and outward-looking Korean presidents. Unfortunately, for the past decade, South Korea has been more inwardly focused,...
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Budget Deficits: A Necessary Evil?
The Tizona Group (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
We’re all aware that the global financial crisis is exactly that, a financial crisis affecting the globe. So imagine my shock and awe when I heard Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the radio stating that his Government is willing to allow the budget to “temporarily fall into deficit” . Interesting. As Malcolm Turnbull accurately noted, the last Labor deficit, under Paul Keating, lasted six...
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It's worse than they thought
The Australian (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... As the outlook has darkened, this has become untenable. And Rudd does not want to be trapped like Paul Keating, who declared in March 1990 that "there won't be a recession", only to declare by December that we needed the recession that had arrived. This is a period of great economic danger for Australia. In principle a good case can be made for a budget stimulus to try to hold recession...
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“Howard costs taxpayers”
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
What, no figures, too, for Malcolm Fraser? Paul Keating? Bob Hawke?
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Deficit of courage
The Australian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... important, that it still carries psychological scars from its early 1990s recession legacy under Paul Keating. The branding John Howard and Peter Costello gave Labor in the years post-1996 has stuck: that the ALP is the party of irresponsible deficit spending. The Howard years enshrined the virtue of the budget surplus. The public associates the budget surplus with sound management....
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Unions regain powers
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
UNIONS are set to gain huge bargaining powers when a radical overhaul of workplace laws is unveiled by the Rudd Government today.The overhaul will propose a vastly increased role for unions, venturing far beyond the policy Labor took to the election a year ago. Business groups are already branding Julia Gillard's 600-page legislative package a "throwback to the Keating era" as unions stand to...
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Unions regain wide bargaining powers
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
UNIONS are set to gain huge bargaining powers when a radical overhaul of workplace laws is unveiled by the Rudd Government today.Business groups are already branding Julia Gillard's 600-page legislative package a "throwback to the Keating era" as unions stand to win back rights to demand industry-wide pay deals and access to the wage records of non-members, Employers are furious that unions...
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