Keating

Candid four-part interview series with Kerry O'Brien revealing the forces that shaped Paul Keating's ambitions, and some of the inside stories from Australian political history.

In this second episode we get the story through Paul Keating's eyes of the powerful Hawke-Keating combine, arguably the most successful reforming partnership in Australian politics.

From Keating's warnings that Australia was headed for Third World status to 'the recession we had to have'. His partnership with Bob Hawke ends in true Shakespearean style 'In the end I'd execute him'.

The Keating prime ministership: covering the road to a Republic, repointing the continent to Asia, the Redfern Speech and embracing Mabo; compulsory superannuation and blowing budget surpluses to climb out of recession.