Paul Keating - The Redfern Address - Australian Labor Party

Bin total kuschel bedürftig aber niemand da ;(

Ideologically Keating is the best labor prime minister, because all his best ideas are not left wing ones:
- Floating the Dollar
- Support for GST before changing his mind
- Reducing Tariffs on Imports
- Removing Centralised wage fixing
- Deregulation
- Privatisation (Qantas/Comm-Bank)

As for comments about Keating being so compassionate, he introduced mandatory detention for asylum seekers.

Our best Labor PM - the Liberal pretending to be a Union Heavy.

i don't really see that with KEating. his economic policies weren't as so concerned with being 'egalitarian' but rather realistic. so i don't think it's as black and white as you make it out to be, he doesn't hold those socio-economical hierarchy attitudes that most Liberals do, the man grew up in Bankstown and was a school drop out, hardly what makes a Liberal. same thing could be said for Brendan Nelson in reverse

It is obviously not a black and white issue politics rarely is, but if we where to list alot of the policies of Hawke and Keating on a piece of paper then alot of them are anti-union and they copped alot of flack for them within their own party.

Labor succeded where the Liberals probably never could, in the culling of the far left and the slow drift towards the center. If a liberal tried to pass these policies they would be viewed much like Howard is today.

i suppose that's true, i'm watching Q&A right now and Hockey is taking a load of crap. i guess you're right that people often overlook the nature of these kind of policies just because someone like Keating has the historical capacity to empaphise with those core demographics

Paul said it better than Kevin Rudd.Without all the fanfair and media frenzy

Fine and intelligent speech.

well done - important record of australian history.

what damage? The best thing that ever happened to the aboroginal peoples was the stolen generations....which figures now stand up for aboriginal peoples? Stolen Generations and their descendants

A great speech from a great Prime Minister, the best since Whitlam.

However, I don't appreciate trying to prop up the speech with music in this video. It destroys the rhetoric and the cadence when you try and give it a soundtrack.