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    The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating
    The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating
    The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating
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    The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating

    By Russell Marks

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    Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating – at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best.

    Paul lets rip – on John Howard: “The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.”

    On Peter Costello: “The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg.”

    On John Hewson: “[His performance] is like being flogged with a warm lettuce.”

    On Andrew Peacock: “...what we have here is an intellectual rust bucket.”

    On Wilson Tuckey: “...you stupid foul-mouthed grub.”

    On Tony Abbott: “If Tony Abbott ends up the prime minister of Australia, you’ve got to say, God help us.”

    And that’s just a taste .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Inc. Books
    Release dateJun 25, 2014
    ISBN9781922231734
    The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating
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    Russell Marks

    Russell Marks is a practising lawyer, has a PhD in political history and is an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University. He is the author of Crime and Punishment: Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System, and has been published in The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Overland, Inside Story and the Australian Book Review.

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      The Book of Paul - Russell Marks

      Published by Black Inc.,

      an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd

      37–39 Langridge Street

      Collingwood Vic 3066 Australia

      email: enquiries@blackincbooks.com

      http://www.blackincbooks.com

      Copyright © Black Inc. 2014

      All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or trans­mitted in any form by any means electronic, mechanical, photo­copying, recording or otherwise without the prior consent of the publishers.

      National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

      The book of Paul : the wit & wisdom of Paul Keating /

      compiled by Russell Marks.

      9781863956727 (paperback)

      9781922231734 (ebook)

      Keating, Paul, 1944---Quotations.

      Politicians--Australia--Quotations.

      Australian wit and humor.

      Marks, Russell, compiler.

      320.994

      Contents

      Alexander Downer

      Tony Abbott

      Kim Beazley

      Joe Hockey

      Stephen Smith

      Peter Costello

      Malcolm Fraser

      John Hewson

      Bob Hawke

      Andrew Peacock

      John Howard

      Wilson Tuckey

      Ian Sinclair

      Jim Carlton

      Miscellaneous Insults

      Labor

      Himself

      The Liberals & the Coalition

      International Relations

      Economics

      The Big Picture

      ALEXANDER DOWNER

      The idiot son of the aristocracy.

      Brother, taking you into Elizabeth Bay House is like dragging a hog into the Sistine Chapel, I can assure you.

      He is the Christmas turkey.

      Howard has been sending a boy on a man’s job for years.

      [on Downer as foreign minister]

      TONY ABBOTT

      I don’t know who should lead the Liberals, but I mean, I know who I wouldn’t be going for. If they take Tony Abbott, they’re just going to go back downhill to wherever they’ve been. He’s the one most like Howard ideologically – he’s what I call the young fogey. Howard was the old fogey. He’s the young fogey.

      KIM BEAZLEY

      What would he know from roaming around the Western Australian branch and visiting Pommies in nursing homes? Look at him, he lost an election and he’s still walking around like a big cuddly bear. I told him I

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