saint sarah - the canonization of shy, page-200

ahhh keating - one of the giants of australian politics .. if one had to rate him - then maybe 8 out of 10. looking back, but keating only lost a point of so , because for political expediency he argued against the GST which was proposed by hewson (from memory, keating was privately in favour of a gst).

labor itself disowned keating for a long time .

watso has to admit that he voted for howard in the election that keating lost - but that was a mistake that watso will wear like a crown of thorns .

mmm watso even recalls the election night when keating lost the election - watso was driving south (could have been down to albany) with his family, and high fived with his wife at the keating loss when the local election news black out ban was lifted - and the eastern states results showed a howard win