Follow the leader
Jun 19, 2022
2 minutes
BERNARD LAGAN
It was the pugilist in a double-breasted suit, the former Labor prime minister Paul Keating, who told Australians that when the government changes, so does their country,
Keating’s words, delivered towards the end of his tenure in 1996, were less a prophecy than a lament; he could see his slayer, the centre-right soon-to-be prime minister John Howard, coming. Howard
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