The '87 crash was a world wide event beginning in Hong Kong on October 19 and spreading throughout the world.
Hawke, PM at the time, had no control over events. Keating did not wrest control of the PM-ship until '91, if I remember.
I worked on the Hawke re-election account during the late 80s and again on Keating's push in the early 90s. Do not mistake my work for these people with having an allegiance to their policies.
Work is work. It paid my way.
My point with Howard is he was a mean-spirited man with no vision for our country. He demonstrated his meanness so often I, to this day, still can't believe he was relected so often.
We are paying now for his stroking of big business with the big end of town continuing in his slipstream, unhinded.
I have been part of the big end. I talk with some experience, but I will defer to those more in the current know.
Diligent, you are right. Greed happens again and again - in fact it happens always. Greed is a constant.
Only a society properly cared for in its social structures and moral leadership will greed be kept to a small corner of town.
