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I think it is a shame that our system of government means that ex PM's still like to throw dirt at each other (some don't but a lot do) long after they've stopped being political foes. At least in the US they seem to have a bit more respect for each other (with the exception of the Peanut...

Sure. My comment was because it is one of those common misconceptions - that Costello and Howard managed the revenue > expenditure equation and saved their way out of debt. Like when people point to the GST as a money grab on the part of the federal government (another popular...

Seems pretty cut and dried. Nice reference (especially the Budget one). I'm still comfortable with ranking Keating pretty well as a Treasurer (with Costello a bit above him).

I've referred to a few of Keating's reforms in a post above.

I'm (genuinely) curious to know your thinking behind it being a failed experiment. And in asking that I fully agree that that user-pays (or user-contributes) is by and large a fair system - so I'm not arguing for a return to fee-freedom. But, otoh, my impression of the higher education...

I can understand why people think like that, and why people in particular dislike Keating, particularly given the following quote - "The first thing to say is, the accounts do show that Australia is in a recession. The most important thing about that is that this is a recession that...

I wasn't saying Bob Hawke was Whitlam's Treasurer, but that AB was getting confused which PM had Keating as a Treasurer (it wasn't Gough, it was Bob). And Bob Hawke did serve (if that is the word) as Treasurer. After Keating's failed coup in June 1991 for about 48 hrs.

Keating was never Gough's Treasurer. You're thinking of Bob.

The man who (imo) was the catalyst for modern Australia. Listen to Paul Kelly ~ "From Little Things Big Things Grow"