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A craven acceptance of US strategic hegemony in Asia

The Financial Review, if it wishes to remain relevant, requires a monster dose of reality – a de-lousing of its misplaced strategic ideology and its...

12.04.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

A craven acceptance of US strategic hegemony in Asia

The Financial Review, if it wishes to remain relevant, requires a monster dose of reality – a de-lousing of its misplaced strategic ideology and its...

10.04.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Appointment of Samantha Mostyn as Governor-General

I congratulate Samantha Mostyn on her appointment as Governor-General. Such an appointment is a great honour. Ms Mostyn has given much service to...

03.04.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Restoring appropriate equilibrium between our two countries

This morning I had a one hour five minute meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister Mr Wang Yi. This was a very pleasant and engaging event which,...

21.03.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Visit to Australia by Chinese Foreign Minister HE Wang Yi

The Chinese Foreign Minister, Mr Wang Yi, is in Australia this week to participate in the China-Australia Foreign and Strategic Dialogue with his...

18.03.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Penny Wong rattles the China can

It doesn’t take much to encourage Penny Wong, sporting her ‘deeply concerned’ frown, to rattle the China can – a can she gave a good shake to...

05.03.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Lifting the sense of ourselves

For anyone seeking an understanding of what Paul Keating’s public life was all about, his acceptance speech on the occasion of his life membership...

22.02.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

The death of Lowitja O’Donoghue

Lowitja O’Donoghue was a great Indigenous woman. A very great one. She led the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission with great power...

05.02.2024 8

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

The Chilcot Report: John Howard should be held in contempt by every thinking Australian

Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has visited on Australia the whole spectre of terrorism, through his craven and ill-judged support of the...

15.01.2024 4

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Unconscionable profits

The Canadian private equity fund Brookfield’s bid for Origin Energy has the sole aim of delivering unconscionable profits to investors. But the rest...

01.12.2023 4

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

The death of Henry Kissinger: Statement by Paul Keating

Henry Kissinger’s death draws to a close the epoch of intellectualism in foreign policy to which he was committed following his early study of and...

30.11.2023 6

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Brookfield is taking ‘suckers for a ride’ with its Origin play

Brookfield’s bid for Origin is nothing more that just another private equity fund “with the sole aim of delivering unconscionable profits to...

29.11.2023 10

Financial Review

Paul Keating

Bill Hayden warned that becoming a US supplicant carried unacceptable risks

Bill Hayden rescued and resuscitated the Labor Party as a national force as certainly as I am standing before you today. We may see the likes of Bill...

04.11.2023 100

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Herald Sun report on support for Zionist Federation letter “untrue”

Today’s Melbourne Herald Sun carries a story that, along with other former Australian Prime Ministers, I will be a signature to a statement drafted...

29.10.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

The Hayden Oration – 29 September 2017

 Australia’s relationship with the United States is fine. What is not fine is the Austral-Americans in this country conducting themselves as though...

23.10.2023 6

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Death of Bill Hayden – A statement from Paul Keating

A modernising Treasurer, the author and founder of Medicare, the re-shaper and builder of the post-War Labor Party, Foreign Minister and finally, in...

21.10.2023 6

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Voice is proven to dramatically improve outcomes

08.10.2023 6

The Australian

Paul Keating

Leadership from Paul Keating on recognition of Aboriginal dispossession -1992

“Nowhere in the world, I would venture, is the message more stark than it is in Australia. We simply cannot sweep injustice aside.  … the...

25.09.2023 9

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

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