William Gethin Jones’s Reviews > Paul Keating: The Big-picture Leader > Status Update
William Gethin Jones
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-Republic commissions started, talks to Queen, trying to lead nation to an Australian future, plan: Parliament chooses president, referendum planned before 01
-94 economic recovery, Working Nation, long term unemployed, yet rises 4 time interest rates
-Creative Nation, a historical approach, Racial Hatred Bill
-Still disliked by public seen as arrogant, big picture yet ignorant of the small factors that got Pk ther
— Sep 07, 2023 03:56PM
-94 economic recovery, Working Nation, long term unemployed, yet rises 4 time interest rates
-Creative Nation, a historical approach, Racial Hatred Bill
-Still disliked by public seen as arrogant, big picture yet ignorant of the small factors that got Pk ther
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William Gethin Jones
is on page 630 of 764
-Competition? Several wanted to challenge but never did
-PK had lots of baggage, lots seen him as arrogant
-Election called early 96, polls neck and neck but fluctuated, PK catches up, JH seen as reliable, RW received letter (fake) this is the end, press conference but JH denies and leads the a stall and the great defeat that followed, landslide election, main problem the longevity in office
— Sep 15, 2023 02:43PM
-PK had lots of baggage, lots seen him as arrogant
-Election called early 96, polls neck and neck but fluctuated, PK catches up, JH seen as reliable, RW received letter (fake) this is the end, press conference but JH denies and leads the a stall and the great defeat that followed, landslide election, main problem the longevity in office
William Gethin Jones
is on page 589 of 764
-Relationship with Indonesia, defence agreement,
-Keating and Blair, how he impacted New Labour
-His turn away from day to day politics was his end, his antipathy towards the media after 93 was the end, chance in appearance in parl also seen as his greatest powers limited
— Sep 08, 2023 03:59PM
-Keating and Blair, how he impacted New Labour
-His turn away from day to day politics was his end, his antipathy towards the media after 93 was the end, chance in appearance in parl also seen as his greatest powers limited
William Gethin Jones
is on page 520 of 764
-93 budget disaster
-Dawkins resigns replaced by Willis
-Reform of pay policy, no longer one suit fits all
— Sep 07, 2023 03:54PM
-Dawkins resigns replaced by Willis
-Reform of pay policy, no longer one suit fits all
William Gethin Jones
is on page 513 of 764
-Redfern, political capital spent, trying to recon with ab grievances, settle on land titles, pastroral leases, historic yet may have cost election in 96, cajoling and shaming to pass senate and agreement with ab
— Aug 31, 2023 03:07PM
William Gethin Jones
is on page 489 of 764
-Drop in company tax, increase in child payments, large deficit
-Sweetest of Victories, election 1993, many thought would lose, behind in polls, 3 debates,
-Change in top office DR leaves instability follows, dinner after election pompous, claim to be beginning of end, claims only won as an anti vote and not a plus vote, PMC is dysfunctional leads to complications, debates about how he chaired cab
— Aug 31, 2023 03:07PM
-Sweetest of Victories, election 1993, many thought would lose, behind in polls, 3 debates,
-Change in top office DR leaves instability follows, dinner after election pompous, claim to be beginning of end, claims only won as an anti vote and not a plus vote, PMC is dysfunctional leads to complications, debates about how he chaired cab
William Gethin Jones
is on page 462 of 764
-Lizard of Oz
-View of history, questioning classical view, Menzies, where does Aust lie?
-One Nation, war against Fightback!, PK in parl, attacks and famous phrases, GST a vice around JH’s neck
-ON overestimates economic comeback, deficit skyrockets, economy in bad shape, question not who broke but who will fix
-Polling improving, shaky, PK leading, attacking, galvanising his troops
— Aug 28, 2023 03:56PM
-View of history, questioning classical view, Menzies, where does Aust lie?
-One Nation, war against Fightback!, PK in parl, attacks and famous phrases, GST a vice around JH’s neck
-ON overestimates economic comeback, deficit skyrockets, economy in bad shape, question not who broke but who will fix
-Polling improving, shaky, PK leading, attacking, galvanising his troops
William Gethin Jones
is on page 428 of 764
-APEC
-Push to creat economic forum for Pacific leaders
-Seen as greatest foreign policy success
-Now annual, lasting legacy
— Aug 27, 2023 03:29PM
-Push to creat economic forum for Pacific leaders
-Seen as greatest foreign policy success
-Now annual, lasting legacy
William Gethin Jones
is on page 415 of 764
-Fightback! BH ineffective in combatting, opinion poll slide, caucus turning away, New Federalism party not interested, most advise BH to resign in honer and not lose
-PK plan to quit in jan 92, canvassing media supportive, believed only one chance and missed
-Dec 19th parl recold to debate bill, PK and followers strike, ballot held, 56-51
-PK PM, no new in cab but moved around, big picture, employment and inflation
— Aug 26, 2023 10:58AM
-PK plan to quit in jan 92, canvassing media supportive, believed only one chance and missed
-Dec 19th parl recold to debate bill, PK and followers strike, ballot held, 56-51
-PK PM, no new in cab but moved around, big picture, employment and inflation
William Gethin Jones
is on page 385 of 764
-1990 recession, interest rates too low then raised too quickly, 1990 budget too optimistic, surplus still but slashed
-Microeconomics, telecom, privatisation
-Kirribilli agreement renegaded by BH, Dec, seen as the beginning of the end
-Gulf War, gave BH more time
-May challenge from PK comes, believes BH should have stepped aside because of KA, BH wins 70-40 ish, PK on bb, resigns
— Aug 24, 2023 03:56PM
-Microeconomics, telecom, privatisation
-Kirribilli agreement renegaded by BH, Dec, seen as the beginning of the end
-Gulf War, gave BH more time
-May challenge from PK comes, believes BH should have stepped aside because of KA, BH wins 70-40 ish, PK on bb, resigns
