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This collection of speeches reflects many of those interests and impulses - whether it be Joern Utzon's Opera
House or the imperative of liberal internationalism in foreign policy or Neoclassicism, the future of native title or the
rise of China. Each is related in a wider construct which is part and parcel of the way | have viewed and thought
about the world.
While the speeches are from the period after my prime ministerial life and period in government, the impulse in
writing them came from the same framework and inclinations which informed my life in public office.
The speeches may be read individually or read together, subject to subject, idea to idea. Either way, a common
thread informs them all.
| trust this might be evident to the reader.
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Paul Keating explains as never before
e BY:PAUL KELLY, EDITOR-AT-LARGE
° From:The Australian
e October 22, 2011 12:00AM
WITH his panoramic view of world affairs sharper than ever, Paul Keating blames the current global crisis
on blunders by European and US leaders and warns that Australia must rediscover the keys to national
success.
Interviewed in his Sydney office, furnished in a style he calls “the last gasp of revolutionary classicism", Keating's
new 600-plus page book sits atop his desk, an insight into his intellectual, aesthetic and political obsessions.
What has Keating been doing since he left office in 1996? He has been travelling, speaking and analysing the
world and Australia with undiminished intensity suggesting a man operating as prime minister-in-exile.
His idea of leadership is more philosophical than ever, more distant from Bob Hawke or John Howard. His focus is
the synthesis between beauty and reason and his book encompasses China's currency, the world malaise,
Mahler's Symphony No2 and broaching the republic with the Queen.
During the interview Keating talks, as never before, about his leadership concept. But he
is doing something else: explaining himself to a still puzzled nation.
“The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs
and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction," Keating tells me. In
retirement, his political inspiration comes from music and beauty, not opinion polls.
There are signs he has mellowed. While ruthless with his judgments Keating is keen to
support a struggling Labor Party while addressing the source of its strategic demise.
"The failure of the Rudd and Gillard administrations is the lack of an over-arching story,
the lack of a compelling story," he says when interviewed last week.
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