Paul Keating

I've always done my best to go that extra mile, to do the hard yards and bring the fight to the enemy where they least expect it. I'm not a vain man, but I'm not afraid to take credit where it's due, because let me tell you, there's never any shortage of people trying to take it away from you. One thing about this banana monarchy of ours, as soon as you put your head above the ramparts there'll be an army of anklebiters trying to drag you down, little minds that can't see further than next week and have no idea how it all fits together. Those dopey bastards in the ALP and at the Bulletin will tell you "Keating is Dead" and all the rest of it, but I wasn't dead when I was floating the currency, and I wasn't dead when I was clearing the cobwebs out of the industrial relations system, and I wasn't dead when I was opening up the curtains and letting a bit of sunshine in on a country that hadn't seen the light of day in over a century. Me and Bernie Fraser and Don Russell cleaned this place up and got the economy ticking over and broke the back of inflation and had a few ideas about Aboriginals and the Republic as well, and I don't get a word of thanks but I wouldn't complain for quids. You can't be bitter, because then you end up like Hawkie, with a brain like a bird's nest: all sticks and shit. You meet lots of different people in a job like mine, and most of them are two-penny fizzers that fall to earth like fireworks, but just cause you swallowed a fucking dictionary when you were about fifteen doesn't mean you aren't a wet lettuce getting flogged like the rest of us.
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