Aussie Pride

One thing that occurs when overseas and meeting other nationalities is the discussion of politics and Australia's unfortunate image as seen through our current Prime Minister Johnnie Howard. Either little is known of him despite being PM for 10 years (the Mr Sheen comparison seems the best way to describe him physically) or that he is Bush's lapdog in regards to international affairs. Either way there ain't much to be proud of in our head of government.


This Mr Sheen ....................................not this Mr Sheen

I do hark back for a time when our PM was a definite character who had a bit of balls and whether you liked him or not, he was funny at least. The following is an article from the The Age newspaper about Tony Blair's media advisor's recent memoir, in particular his meeting with then PM Paul Keating.

Keating offered Blair tips on handling Murdoch
London
July 10, 2007 -

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/im-paul-keating-now-f-off/2007/07/10/1183833444241.html

(Rather then wade through the article) the funniest bit was a discussion about Keating's future:


There was also discussion about Mr Keating's future, with his then media adviser, Greg Turnbull, telling Mr Campbell if Mr Keating won the 1996 federal election he would quit a year later. "Paul Keating said when he was out of office he planned to have an answering machine with the message: 'You have reached the office of ex-prime minister Paul Keating. Now f*** off and leave me alone'," Campbell wrote.

On Paul I do miss you...