Paul Keating
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Nov 2, 2026
Peter SwitzerCORRESPONDENT
right now.
Peter SwitzerCORRESPONDENT
The Reserve Bank is a bunch of guesses and they've guessed badly for a long time such that Paul Keating keeps saying they're late to the party to raise interest rates and to cut interest rates and that's where we are at this point in time.
Peter SwitzerCORRESPONDENT
And so that's what the Cup Day is bound to deliver on Tuesday tomorrow.
Ben FordhamHOST
Yeah, it's going to be a stressful wait for the RBA tomorrow.
Tony MoclairHOST
Good afternoon to you Tony
Scott HaywardGUEST
and yes what you touched on in terms of interest rates was correct back in the early 90s in the time that there was the recession that Paul Keating said we had to have in the banana republic interest rates were over seven and a half percent and I'm sure there's a few of our afternoon listeners who will remember those days when they had to fork out obscene amounts of money and there may also be some listeners who remember on the other side of the coin, invested in Pyramid, particularly those in the Geelong region who were guaranteed.
Scott HaywardGUEST
And a state mortgage.
Scott HaywardGUEST
That was the other one, yeah.
Scott HaywardGUEST
And that has been deliberately done by Jim Chalmers, who was overspent.
Scott HaywardGUEST
So he overspent on public services.
Scott HaywardGUEST
He overspent on everything to mean that he was not going to be the next treasurer, like Paul Keating, that sent our nation into a recession.
Scott HaywardGUEST
And I believe he was doing that to protect his brand and, dare I say it, his ego.
Mark LevyHOST
I'm not surprised that the opposition would be concerned about Andrew Charlton potentially taking over as the Treasurer of this country.
Mark LevyHOST
He's got a PhD in economics from, was it Oxford University we were talking about last week? What's Dr Chalmers got? a PhD after doing a political thesis on Paul Keating.
Mark LevyHOST
Andrew Charlton, who ran a successful business, sold it for a mozza.
Mark LevyHOST
You can sort of understand why the opposition would be a little bit concerned because he brings with him experience.
Mark LevyHOST
I'm not surprised that the opposition would be concerned about Andrew Charlton potentially taking over as the Treasurer of this country.
Mark LevyHOST
He's got a PhD in economics from, was it Oxford University we were talking about last week? What's Dr Chalmers got? a PhD after doing a political thesis on Paul Keating.
Mark LevyHOST
Andrew Charlton, who ran a successful business, sold it for a mozza.
Mark LevyHOST
You can sort of understand why the opposition would be a little bit concerned because he brings with him experience.
Bronwyn BishopGUEST
But the important thing is this.
Bronwyn BishopGUEST
If the Labor Party wants to have any hope of Romanian power, then they should take a leaf out of Paul Keating's book and reverse all those pieces of legislation in the budget and restore negative gearing.
Bronwyn BishopGUEST
They have ripped the guts out of the property market.
Bronwyn BishopGUEST
You're seeing furniture stores collapse or downgrade their earnings.
Shane OliverGUEST
And then suddenly you end up going too far.
Shane OliverGUEST
It's a bit like Paul Keating in the late 1980s talking about how strong the economy was.
Shane OliverGUEST
The champagne was so effervescent, it was overflowing the glass.
Shane OliverGUEST
Just when he's making those comments, In the late 80s, the economy was sliding into recession.
Troy BramstonGUEST
He was very frank in his views about politics in Australia.
Troy BramstonGUEST
And of course, much later on, other governors general continued the tradition, people like Bill Hayden, you know, tore into his previous colleagues, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating in his letters.
Troy BramstonGUEST
So we may think it's unusual that the governor general is writing these letters in such a frank way, giving these unvarnished assessments, but John Kerr is not the only one to do it.
Troy BramstonGUEST
So there's a long tradition of these letters writing to the palace to update them on what's happening in Australia.
32 MINS LATER
DavidHOST
Do you have any other remarks or comments you'd like to make about the palace letters?
Troy BramstonGUEST
David, let me just make one other brief point, which is that I think that the suggestion that the Queen knew what John Kerr was going to do in advance and when he was going to do it, or endorsed the way he did it, that is a surprise dismissal of Gough Whitlam by ambush, is not supported by any of the leading constitutional scholars in Australia, such as George Williams or Anne Toomey or Michael Sexton or many others.
Troy BramstonGUEST
And also the surviving Whitlam ministers, when the letters were made public in 2020, that is Paul Keating, Bill Hayden, Moss Cass and Doug McClelland, none of them believed that the letters implicated the coin directly as being responsible or aware of or in support of Kerr's dismissal of Whitlam.
Troy BramstonGUEST
So we can be very critical of John Kerr for what he did, and I certainly am, but I don't think there's any evidence either in these letters or in any interview or any other document that suggests that the Queen personally supported what Kerr did or how he did it.
Mark LevyHOST
I'm not surprised that the opposition would be concerned about Andrew Charlton potentially taking over as the Treasurer of this country.
Mark LevyHOST
He's got a PhD in economics from, was it Oxford University we were talking about last week? What's Dr Chalmers got? a PhD after doing a political thesis on Paul Keating.
Mark LevyHOST
Andrew Charlton, who ran a successful business, sold it for a mozza.
Mark LevyHOST
You can sort of understand why the opposition would be a little bit concerned because he brings with him experience.
Trev WarnerHOST
We've seen it.
Trev WarnerHOST
What I saw back in the 90s when the Paul Keating's recession that we had to have, I was in small business at the time and then all the farmers around me were going broke.
Trev WarnerHOST
People weren't paying their bills.
Trev WarnerHOST
our business got to a break-even point where it wasn't worth continuing and then I had a couple of bad debts so that just that was just the final nail in the coffin and we pulled the pin before we lost everything but when I come back to the coast I got into the construction industry what we saw there with undercutting of rates and everything was was just phenomenal people were people were just surviving They were doing work just to put food on the table.
James MacPhersonHOST
The RBA is expected to give us our fifth interest rate rise for the year when they convene on Tuesday.
James MacPhersonHOST
And you don't have to have written a thesis on Paul Keating to understand why inflation is still too high.
James MacPhersonHOST
Yet his finance minister, Katie Gallagher, telling the ABC this morning, there's no guarantee the government will cut more than it spends.
James MacPhersonHOST
Have a listen.
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