Volume LIII Number 12
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Unfinished Buisness by David Love
Following the recent screening of Keating! The Musical on ABC2, David Barnett wondered in the Canberra Times at the production’s sheer “malevolence, and the hatred from which it arises”. The eponymous hero of the show is portrayed as a wronged and tragic figure who saved Australia from an evil gnome called Bob Hawke. Now, in the Keating version of history as brought to us by David Love, we go one better. Here the principal anti-hero to emerge is not Bob Hawke (who in Love’s book is made to disappear pretty much altogether), but Bernie Fraser, the former Treasury official who Keating appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank.
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