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While I'm on my soap box Keating was useless as PM.

Keating promised two rounds of income tax cuts, legislating them and describing them as "L-A-W law" and never did them, it actually might of helped him but the greatest Treasurer the world had seen decided, the tax cut law should be repealed following the election, with the government instead announcing the money would be put into superannuation.

Just lucky that he found an even bigger idiot in John Hewson to this day proving what a dumbarse he is every time he opens his mouth.


The economy crashed he ran up debt like nobodies business and the only economic reform he introduced was compulsory "Super" has been an abject failure with workers forgoing forcibly 9% of their wages week in week out
and now 12%.



The only winners from such a policy would be the superannuation industry and Unions, which would get to ‘clip the ticket’ on more funds under management and earn fatter profits.

Hawke was a decent politician, Keating rode on the back of neo-liberalism and when he had his shot failed miserably.

Asked by a journalist on 10 July if the unemployment rate of 10.8% meant he had to admit his economic policies had failed, he responded: “Do you mean the ones that have taken Australia from an industrial museum to give it a future, or do you mean the cyclical ones?”

AOC like Keating is someone whose knowledge is a mile wide but an inch deep.