why paul keating is dead wrong, page-29

that's just being silly and allowing
personal political prejudice to cloud
ones' judgement...

keatings' contribution to public life
has been well documented and took place
over several decades and continues to this
day... one doesn't have to be a labor
supporter to recognise a talented operator..

his '80s reforms of the economic and financial
underpinnings of our economy set the stage for
our recent prosperity and his shepherding of
superannuation has enormous implications for
individual prosperity in retirement as well as
being of enormous importance to the operation of
financial markets today..

his failing, in conservative eyes, is that he doesn't
tend to pander to establishment mores and the
hypocrisy of the middle-class wannabes who see
conservative political alliances as a badge of
honour for what they think of as economic
rationalism but is really just good old
fashioned selfishness and greed...