
NH: Bob Hawke the movie
So nothing good about running a country though...ha ha
You forgot "hands on".
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Keating " The Lizard of Oz" portrayed negatively..Was there anything positive about the bloke?

Last night I was searching for when I missed the other episodes...
I didnt know he was the idea behind the overthrow of the Apartheid government in South Africa.Thats impressive compared to the American Civil war of the 1860's on negro Slavery.
To get a Churchill fellowship also builds a tremendous ability.
I wonder where Paul Keatings image of Italian suits and classic clock collecting came from or turned up in the papers?


John Hay - nina can't view it on ten.com.au because she's (?) overseas and it's blocked for non-Australian IPs. Only hope there is probably to find a reputable private Australian proxy or VPN service, both of which will cost money.

I thought they could have expanded it into a mini-series. Trying to jam 9 years into 2 hrs didn't give justice to a lot of things he did. They didn't really have any of his stouches with John Howard or Andrew Peacock, and a big gap was the Bicentenary in 1988. Sir Joh didn't get a flag and the failed "Joh for PM" campaign in 1987 which served that term on a silver platter to Bob should have been right up there as he was lucky to get that term.
His relationship with Kerry Packer and the big hitters of the '80's (eg Skase, Bond, Holmes a Court etc) could have also been spot lighted.
I thought that Paul Keating was not portrayed in a good light. I have heard him described before as a "turd in an Italian suit", and I thought the Directors basically painted him as this. I doubt if he is that bad.
Overall, when you look at what Hawke did for the country, his list of achievement is pretty long.
