Warwick Quinton I doubt it too - but I certainly hope we do, for all our sakes!

You are so right where are the statesmen of today with a vision for our country? R.I.P Bob Hawke.

Warwick Quinton apart from Howard and Abbott (and maybe Morrison), they've all been Keatings! At least, AFTER they became PM.

@@bigyin2586 You have to be trolling ; a critical thinking analysis of Howard, Abbott and Scumo would show that they have no vision what so ever apart from looking after the wealthy.

Will we see another Keating any time soon? Necessity will bare another . Lord know we need one.

Shit indeed!

It’s all a part of their theatre, have you heard them when on the radio?

@@paulsz6194 there wit is unsurpassed. Brilliant!

whats funny i Geoff fell because he couldn't work politics and was too harsh to the party and Keating fell because he couldn't work the Australian people and was a bit too harsh with telling things as they were

pyrmontbridge yes, curse those stupid evil oiks.

Albo and his crew seem to be in the right track in 2022. Done more than that ScoMo in 10yrs in three weeks....repaired relationships with most of the world, met with everyone, and navel gazing and wondering how in hell we are a TRILLION dollars in debt. I'd suggest GST goes to 15%. It'll be HIGHLY unpopular, but no-one will notice past next week. Everything goes up in price daily anyway. It'll get lost in the wind And the LABOR party is high spending? Give me a break.....

@@peterhoare3219 SloMo was an amateur at diplomacy. E.g. he thought he could score points by sucking up to the Trump regime by announcing an investigation into the origins of Covid. Firstly, this was not Australia's job to do, but the WHO. Why should Australia waste time and resources on it? Secondly, he somehow didn't foresee the China would get their back up and do sanctions on Australia. Yes, it was on unfair response, but have some foresight fellas. Plus the Americans never remembered it after a couple of days.

So did the MSM.

He got thumped. The populace in no uncertain terms gave him the arse.

Greg Smith and 11 years of the pungent fruits of arse then ensued...

Funny, they’re almost all backing the Liberals these days.

Yes the man that kickstarted privatisation of government business like Qantas, TAA and the CBA and whose Button car plan withdrew protection and all but destroyed the car industry and those jobs and whose floating of the dollar just to please farmers increased prices on everything. Yea bring him back.

Calling the current government "libertarian" is an insult to libertarianism in itself

The Lazy Nothing Party is destroying this nation via their half baked policies and underfunding them

Yes, I left many years ago because...well, similar views. I just can’t watch Australia any more it saddens me to the core.

They were really good times compared to now.

@bad1dobby keep thinking that, state simp.

Unemployment was at 11% when Keating was PM. Who needs that??

Yes the man that kickstarted privatisation of government business like Qantas, TAA and the CBA and whose Button car plan withdrew protection and all but destroyed the car industry and those jobs and whose floating of the dollar just to please farmers increased prices on everything. Yea bring him back.

@@andyrob3259 Plus the money that Keating received from privatisation was used for recurrent spending eg pensions, health etc. In contrast the Howard/Costello privatisation money was used to pay off govt debt.

@@Neil-yg5gm It was "The unemployment we had to have" to paraphrase.... Luckily we now have Labor in power! In shitty times.....from zero debt to one trillion in debt. And Labor "Can't be trusted with the economy"? Give me a break....🙄

@@peterhoare3219 In 1996 govt debt was 18% of GDP and exploding. By 2007 Howard/Costello had reduced govt debt to zero. Then Rudd/Swan/ALP trashed the budget and we have not run a surplus budget since 2007

Sadly, A thing of our past.

Shorten will most likely take a Victorian Labor vision to a federal platform. Strong long term vision there.

Taking any sort of Vision will guarantee Shorten Government. Re Electing a Liberal National Government whom have proven they are completely void of vision is a situation that no Australian can no longer tolerate. Sticking to the old ways to guarantee the profits of their Big Business supporters is retarding our Country. Change has to come, We have a right as Australians to live in relative comfort, with prosperity, Liberal Nationals are not delivering such.

The IPA / LNP hillbillies have vision ....but it is all as Keating described it ....through the rear vision mirror

@@michaelschulz336 The LNP have a big great vision : keep Labor out.

His intelligence, intellect and vision ought to have been worth your vote. Had people respected all of those things, and looked at the big picture, as he did, we might not be in the sad position we've been in for years.

My grandfather was a Tory politician, my family were liberal voters and I’d never voted for labor. That is until I qualified as a doctor and saw people with intrenched disadvantage. Before that I really believed in meritocracy… however, it fails more often than it succeeds. Some lazy idiots really do very well where as other people can be highly intelligent, motivated, altruistic and yet weighted down by their circumstances. The ironic result is lost productivity to the detriment of society as a whole. The economic and compassionate arguments stack against the liberals, solidly. Why do they exist then? Like the Republican Party in the US, they exist to represent business and to deceive the worker into voting against their own interests by flattering them. The flattering lie is that if you have a job and house that none of it is luck. That’s impossible, somewhere along the way you’ve enjoyed some luck. I’ve not been able to vote liberal since.

@@doctorf7501 Fully agree. The Liberals have been successful in convincing tradies that they have more in common with the big end of town than their work mates. Howard's battlers were nothing more than the schmucks who believed him.

@@SaintlyAussie I doubt Labor has done any good for Australia. If the ALP has done any good it is only by getting us into runaway govt debt.

Lol PK straight? If only you knew lolol

in hindsight he did amazing things for Australia and was a man ahead of his time.

Yep. So progressive. Remember when he said "2 blokes and a Cocker Spaniel don't make a family"?

I agree, he was a visionary. Little Johnny was the wrong for the wrong time...

@@gregsmith451 back then, marriage wasn't legal and having a child wasn't really an option, as far as the economy is concerned, no kid = no family. Not my personal opinion, but a little context is required at the very least. One could even say, it would be less likely that people have the wealth and freedom they do now, if it wasn't for him and Hawke

Yeah ushered in neoliberalism........ugh

You are quite right in my view.

Change for change's sake.

In the water? Was it "The boats" in those days? No, that came later.... I think 🤔

A dose of common sense

@@Burgo62 Amazing how much things change yet never seem to....all the same issues today

@@Burgo62 Yes, John Howard certainly put our country on a good course. Look at where his party and the country has ended up

You rang?

@jimmy Sorry, he was a *socialist*? Do you... know what socialism is? If anything what Roy was asking for, essentially nationalisation of banks and such, that's a very socialist idea (not to say its a bad one but still my point stands)

@@td23asus Paul Keating was a member of the Australian Fabian Society which is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of socialism via the means of gradualism. Their original coat of arms was a wolf in sheep's clothing which was later replaced by a tortoise.

@jimmy I would say “you are aware that Paul Keating “the raging socialist” instituted all the free market reforms we have today” but I won’t because your obviously not aware of anything and have no intention of becoming aware.

@jimmy ...Keating was a principle member of the NSW right of the labour party .... Socialism is not their deal.

@jimmy ....really? What makes you think I'm "a leftie"? Of course ,. Little Johnnie (the lying rodent. As his party members called him) ... Abbott (the pathological liar) .... and scomotose (the grubbiest and creepy of the lot.... all men of honour ,.. as honest as the day is long! LMAO

You're dead right...that WAS the turning point for your dear old land...god bless her....

Albo and his crew are doing VERY WELL in 2022. Given the crap they were left to deal with. Repaired rships with everyone worldwide, increased minimum wage, trying to work out the submarines, and deal with the TRILLION debt from the "Low spending LNP" 🙄🙄 All in three weeks. Thumbs up to Labor as always!

LMAO...hahaha!!

Dude 💀💀💀

One term ? The greatest? Get a grip.

@@jimcrawford5039 Greatness is not measured in the longevity of a leader's commission, but in the quality and influence of their policies. A great leader can do more good in one term than what a poor leader can manage to accomplish in four.

@@jimcrawford5039 spent almost 2 terms as PM and was combined treasurer and PM for 13 years. plus Howard lost an estimated tillion dollars to other nations in the mining boom, created the housing bubble we have now with the halving of the Capital gains tax, and gave us the frankin credit that didn't stop double tax like Paul invented it for but to make it 0 tax loophole. and yet he was in for 12 years so by your standard he should be great

Yes, certainly unlike 1993

Little Johnny had policies ....fear and loathing ....class envy .... Racism ..... White picket fences and a comotose cultural, social and intellectual environment.

@@michaelschulz336 So true. Even as recently as last week on "Australia Talks", Howard couldn't bring himself to call the Cronulla riots racist. He believes that some cultures are better and others are to be assimilated or tolerated.

I would send Howard, Bush and Blair off to the Hague to face trial for war crimes against humanity and if they went they would go down....

GST...

Unemployment went from 8% to 4% and govt debt went from 18% of GDP to ZERO by 2007. In 2007 we were debt free. Howard created APRA, Howard created the Marine Park network.

Cathie Tozer Taking ppls guns off them, gee, hasn’t that worked out well? There’s now more illegal weapons out there than the legal guns that were removed from mostly responsible owners.

@@realaussiemale567 Well yes there tends to be more illegal than legal guns out there when I don't know... guns are illegal

Howard took unemployment from 8% to 4% and govt debt from 18% of GDP in 1996 to zero by 2007. Unemployment was at 11% when keating became PM. Hawke/Keating were economic disasters

@@realaussiemale567 True, but really, how frequent are mass shootings here?

@@Neil-yg5gm Howard rode the wave of the fiscal policies of PK namely the massive foreign investment in Australia.

Trouble is Albo is woke

I'm still laughing. Omg .

Puts the right perspective on strayan politics ..... A cruel satire.

He wouldn’t get the jokes 🤦‍♀️

That free market thinking was the only time I was disappointed with him if I remember correctly. My sister and I ( rusted on labor voters) would watch 'question time' if he was going to be on . Haven't bothered alot since.

Great at what?? Destroying the country??

Russe why would "JWH" want to interrupt another ABC love-in?

18% interest rates. Hmmm, take a look at Treasurer Howard's interest rates under Malcolm Fraser!

@@Puppydoug WE had more than 2 years of double digit unemployment under Keating. Only a few months under Fraser. Same goes for the interest rates. Keatings recession was worse in Australia than other places for some reason

And sent Australia back to a 50's mindset. LNP put the handbrakes on super, gave away mining revenues in unsustainable tax cuts, started chipping away Medicare...all short term election-winning thinking that plagues all sides of politics today. Imagine if we'd had 25+ years of 15% super savings and investments, all that mining revenue ploughed back into infrastructure, education and healthcare!!

Yes, but thanks to my hero, Maxine McKew in 2007, Howard became only THE SECOND PRIME MINISTER in Australia's HISTORY to lose his own seat in a Federal election. Karma.

Jeep your obviously not Australian if you don't get the humor. They were legendary at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The whole world used to tune into the Dream.

@@louiseskip3488 Sorry sweetheart, but you need to be told a few things to help you grow up. 1. I *am* Australian. I've known of Roy and HG ever since they started. Not once have they ever raised even a chuckle out of me. 2. People all over Australia and the world have different senses of humour. Just because YOU find something funny DOES NOT MEAN anyone else will ... or should. 3. "The whole world" did not watch and laugh at Roy and HG at the Olympics. I certainly did not. Just a few sports tragics and national bogans watch the Olympics. 4. And in case you presume I "have no sense of himour", that is far from the case. I have a massive library of comedy videos. Roy and HG will never be in it. Get over it.

tradie 4theladies did he part the Red Sea too?

Hawke won elections, without needing opponents to have suicidally unpopular industrial relations and tax policies to do it.