Former Prime Minister Paul Keating appeared on Lateline last night to defend the carbon tax.
Keating said the carbon tax was an essential step on the path to new industries in the new age: “See, the question is, I think: do we want a first-rate industrial economy or do we want an economy with a brown, fat underbelly? You know, do we want to get into the new age with the new industries, or do we stay in the old ones, talking as Tony Abbott is talking about industries that were important a hundred years ago?”
The transcript of the interview is available here.
Keating in magnificent form! Puts the current crop of Australian politicians to shame!
Couldn’t agree more. Does anyone know how to find out Keating’s schedule of appearances – I’d love to see the man in person and hear him talk?