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His_Holiness on 19/12/2013 - 03:32 shop.abc.net.au (129 clicks)

The Paul Keating interviews with Kerry O'Brien which were recently aired on ABC, are out on DVD. The ABC online shop has them on sale for $19.99, and the cheapest shipping is $2.95. It does have a disclaimer that Sale price may not be available at ABC Shops and/or ABC Centres but that seems to be a generic tag so it may be available for $20 in the retail stores.

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There’s been no one quite like Paul Keating.

Leaving school at age fourteen, he joined the Labor Party soon after, and thus began a remarkable and tumultuous forty-year journey into history as one of Australia’s most significant and contentious political leaders.

In this candid four-part interview series with Kerry O’Brien, Keating reveals the forces that shaped his ambitions, and the inside stories of perhaps the most intense and painful period of economic and social reform in Australian history, including the triumphs and the tears of his highly successful but explosive relationship with Bob Hawke.

This unique series has many unforgettable moments. No other Prime Minister has revealed so much of themselves or their craft to the camera. Paul Keating lived by the sword and died by the sword, believing “we all get carried out in the end.”

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  • Garagesale on 19/12/2013 - 04:53

    Not sure this is actually a bargain. Just standard price id say.

    Interesting series tho.
    Probably still available on iview?

    If so thats where ozbargainers would head.

    Rushed out for xmas id say.

    In the past ive found that jb hifi are often more expensive for a lot of abc releases compared to the abc shop and that jpb dobt stock a lot of abc dvds.

    • SteveBuscemi on 19/12/2013 - 08:45
      +2

      Not on iView, and $10 off is $10 off.

  • wolffram on 19/12/2013 - 07:40
    +6

    Paul Keating. Not sure I'd pay to watch him. No actually, I am sure I wouldn't. Sorry OP.

    • Lord Fart Bucket on 19/12/2013 - 08:06

      I think there's no australian politician I'd pay to watch… Maybe Harold holt, but that's it.

    • Cheeper on 19/12/2013 - 08:59
      +1

      Good way to get to sleep.

      • JohnHowardsEyebrows on 19/12/2013 - 09:25
        +1

        Anybody lumping Keating in with every other politician knows bugger all about the man. He grates with conservatives, because he calls them forthe policy-lite fogeys they are, but only the ignorant would call him boring.

        • sien on 19/12/2013 - 09:43
          +3

          True.

          Not many politicians had to have their entries in Hansard redacted because they contained so much profanity.

          Keating was an excellent treasurer and a fine PM but he had such a huge chip on his shoulder due to his lack of intellectual fundamentals and often substituted insult for debate. 'Captain Wacky' was blessed in that he faced the most inept politician as opposition leader in many years. Had he faced a normal opposition leader he would have been thumped in 1993.

          His endless campaign to claim everything the Hawke government did as his own is farcical. There are now two versions of history, Keating's and everyone else's.

          Dawkins, who was a superb Hawke minister and a very good treasurer is going to appear on TV as a follow up to Keating to point out some of Keating's newer fantasies. He is following up Don Watson and others.

          Keating is interesting, but he is becoming more and more 'interesting' in the sense that a conspiracy theorist is interesting.

          To put Keating into a right versus left game is no longer credible. It's Keating vs much of the ALP.

        • JohnHowardsEyebrows on 19/12/2013 - 09:52
          +3

          "Keating was an excellent treasurer and a fine PM but he had such a huge chip on his shoulder due to his lack of intellectual fundamentals and often substituted insult for debate."

          Garbage. He came from western Sydney, so used the language he was brought up with. He reserved his harshest barbs for those who truly deserved it (Wilson Tuckey), and his insults were all carefully crafted to articulate the malintent of his opponents.

          As for rating him down on "intellectual fundamentals" - please enlighten me who were the great intellects you're measuring him against?
          No leader we've had post WWII has had Keating's vision, grasp of big picture issues, and the ability to implement big picture solutions.

          Yes he's got an ego the size of WA, but he's accomplished more for this country than any individual in modern history. Dawkins no doubt has a point, but then again, Keating apportioned blame to his time as treasurer , so he has his own legacy to defend.

        • sien on 19/12/2013 - 10:30
          +3

          Hawke had a Rhodes Scholarship, as did Beazley as does Turnbull as does Abbott. In the Hawke ministry Jones, Dawkins, Button, Walsh and Hayden all ran rings around Keating intellectually.

          Keating had little understanding of nuance, didn't write well but was good speech giver on occasion.

          If you disagree please point to something that Keating wrote that wasn't ghost written that's regarded well.

          Collecting clocks and liking Mahler is a substitute for having read widely and having to write about what you have understood. You get that by studying hard.

          Coming from Western Sydney is fine, but you've got to add to that to get a better understanding of things.

          Keating's insults were sprayed at everyone. Keating worship is cured quickly by talking to people who had to work with 'Captain Wacky'.

          It wasn't Keating alone who accomplished much. It was the Hawke team. The primary individual who deserves credit for that was Hawke who could handle having other smart, powerful people around him and made the team better than the sum of their parts. But it was a team effort.

          In comparison Keating's government was less than the sum of its parts.

          If you haven't go and read 'The End of Certainty'. It's a decent history of the Hawke/Keating years.

        • JohnHowardsEyebrows on 19/12/2013 - 15:47
          +1

          Thanks for the points, but I'll just note that educated =/= intellectual. Keating was a great exception in most ways (apparatchiks usually don't make great leaders, either), and his ability to firstly learn how the world worked (by talking to those who knew more than him, in the public service), then synthesise it into a world view, then start producing and implementing holistic policy solutions to not address not only today's issues, but the issues of decades to come, shows that despite his lack of formal education, he was second to none in the intellectual department.

          Oh, and re: Rhodes Scholars - I think you've just posted proof of my contention. Hawke might be well studied, and he was a good PM, simply because of his facilitation skills, as opposed to policy, which was not his personal strength. Beazley was a highly articulate windbag who specialised in either using language that went over the electorate's head, or whinging about John Howard (in a tone which inspired no confidence). His education didn't help him. Turnbull is in many ways a contemporary of PJK (poor kids who visited Jack Lang), who elected to get rich before he'd go into politics. Despite being the best possible PM in parliament right now, he wasn't a great opposition leader, and is currently helping Abbott destroy the joint. A bit of a sellout. He has a bit of a twinkle in his eye, but has never shown half the ambition for the country that Paul showed.

          And as for Abbott - there is the coup de grace on the notion that Rhodes Scholars are necessarily high intellects. The man is certainly intelligent, but has no imagination, much less any vision, nor does he have even any coherent personal policy framework to adhere to. It's whatever Peta Credlin tells him to do.

          There's four Rhodes Scholars, two of whom aren't fit to tie PJK's bootstraps, one who's been a raging success in the corporate and legal worlds, but not so much in the parliament, the other who PJK made look decidedly good.

  • Foxtail on 19/12/2013 - 08:42
    +4

    Not a follower of Paul Keating but one must say he was one of the best and witty orators this country has ever seen.

    • [Deactivated] on 19/12/2013 - 09:42
      +1

      Just always keep in mind that his most famous line used in Question Time (to Andrew Peacock - about a 'soufflé never rising twice') was in fact lifted straight from a speech given in the British Parliament decades earlier…

      That said, I watched every episode of this series and found it incredibly compelling.
      Really is worth buying the DVD's if you missed it.

      • JohnHowardsEyebrows on 19/12/2013 - 15:02
        +1

        His most famous line in Question Time was telling Hewson "I wanna do you slowly." But he had a stack of noteworthy ones.

        • A shiver looking for a spine to run up (Hewson).
        • The feral abacus (Hewson again).
        • He's going troppo (burbling his lips).
        • Honourable members opposite are a joke.
        • For the benefit of the blockheads opposite.
        • Gutless spiv (Peacock).

        And that's before getting into some of his dorothy dixers, where he'd unload in colourful, stinging rhetoric (look up the cultural cringe clip on YouTube - it's hilarious as well as damning of the Libs).

        So many (especially on the Liberal side, interestingly) have tried - and failed - to mimic his parliamentary panache, but he was a performer the likes of which we've never seen since, and maybe we'll never see again.

        • [Deactivated] on 19/12/2013 - 16:20
          +1

          Familar with all the quotes you mention, but if I'm recalling the timeline accurately, the soufflé jibe was not only the one that marked him as someone who could keenly belittle the opposition, but it received such huge coverage and attention (albeit in the pre-google plagiarism-checking era) that it did actually get people tuning into Question Time in a manner unprecedented up until that point, and consolidated perceptions of Keating - for both good and for ill.

        • JohnHowardsEyebrows on 19/12/2013 - 16:33
          -1

          I'm too young to have remebered him in action at the time - so happy to have YouTube! :)

    • surfbum1 on 19/12/2013 - 09:55
      +1

      I'm sure a love struck and Fawning Kerry O’Brien will agree with you enthusiastically regarding his Messiah's 'oral skills'

      But I sure as hell wouldn't want to see a movie about it.

  • Mahogany Granger on 19/12/2013 - 09:03
    +4

    If I need bargain on a tool, I'll go to bunnings.

  • jimbler on 19/12/2013 - 09:12
    +1

    It was easily the best show on Australian Tv this year, but I don't need to see it again.

  • JohnHowardsEyebrows on 19/12/2013 - 09:23
    +2

    Bad deal. He made fun of my eyebrows.

    • Mahogany Granger on 19/12/2013 - 09:28

      How long have you been waiting to squeeze that into a sentence.

    • Maddo on 19/12/2013 - 09:54
      +2

      John Howard's Eyebrows have their own eyebrows?

  • bargaino on 19/12/2013 - 11:33
    +2

    Be quick before Keating buys all the copies himself!

  • jackau on 19/12/2013 - 12:02

    Has any one here watch the iview episodes ?? Lol

    This DVD is almost his bibliography.

    It is him vs the rest but still show what sort of second rated dishonest bastards we now have in the houses.

  • jelko on 19/12/2013 - 16:36
    -1

    I prefer Blu Ray.

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