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As he dispensed the indisputable truth, Mr Keating barely looked up from his notes. "It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life," he intoned in his grave, humourless way. "We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion." The...
Heidi Norman, a historian from the University of Technology Sydney, says a convergence of seismic political events — and Labor's bid for re-election — demanded that Mr Keating make a statement that could calm the rising temperature of national debate. "In the lead-up to December 1992, there was the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody...
A magnet for blackfellas and the locus of Aboriginal political activism for generations, Redfern was indeed the place to contemplate the broken relationship between the nation state and the Indigenous body politic. Now the suburb is so gentrified as to be unrecognisable, but 30 years ago it was hardly a common sight to see an Australian prime minis...
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Nov 10, 2021 · Former PM Paul Keating says Australia 'has lost its way' in National Press Club speech – video. Paul Keating. This article is more than 2 years old ‘It would make a cat laugh’: key moments ...
Mar 15, 2023 · Paul Keating’s key moments from the National Press Club. Published 15 March 2023, 8:22 pm. Former prime minister Paul Keating made a contentious speech to the National Press Club, targeting ...
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Nov 10, 2021 · Play Video 1:37 Former prime minister Paul Keating has told the National Press Club that Australia ‘is now very much at odds with its geography and it has lost its way’.
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Former prime minister Paul Keating examines the merits of the AUKUS submarine deal and its implications for China-Australia relations and regional stability....
