After Words
Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
Published on 1. November 2012
656 pages
978-1-74343-254-9 (ISBN)
Description
Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian publishing by virtue of its scale and range of subjects, and that all the speeches are the work of one eye and one mind: former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Each speech has been conceptualised, contextualised and crafted by Paul Keating. Subject to subject, idea to idea, the speeches are related in a wider construct, which is the way Paul Keating has viewed and thought about the world.
The speeches reveal the breadth and depth of his interests - be they cultural, historical, or policy-focused - dealing with subjects as broad as international relations, economic policy and politics. Individual chapters range from a discussion of Jorn Utzon's Opera House through to the redesign of Berlin, the history of native title, the challenge of Asia, the role of the monarchy, to the shape of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, and more.
After Words contains an analytic commentary on Australia's recent social and economic repositioning, in the minds of many, by its principal architect. The speeches, more often than not, go beyond observations, as Paul Keating sketches out new vistas and points to new directions.
For those interested in matters that go to the future of Australia and the world, After Words presents, unmediated, a panoply of issues which the policy mind and writing style of Paul Keating has sculpted into a recognisable landscape.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NSW
Australia
File size
1,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-74343-254-9 (9781743432549)
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Person
Paul Keating was Australia's Treasurer (1983-91) and Prime Minister (1991-96). He championed a clutch of seminal changes to the country, including the reorientation of Australia's strategic and trade relationships with Asia, promoting Australia's shift to a republic and the development of a major legal structure to return lands to Australia's indigenous people. His domestic economic reforms included the dismantling of a centralised wage fixing system in favour of an enterprise bargaining model, floating the Australian dollar, establishing universal superannuation and setting up a competition policy to lower prices, with the aim of lifting disposable incomes. His reforms underpinned twenty years of low inflationary economic growth.
Paul Keating maintains his interest in politics, economics and foreign policy and contributes occasionally to the public debate. He is committed to aesthetic interests in architecture, the decorative arts and the romantic repertoire in classical music.
Content
- Cover
- About the author
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Publisher's Note
- Part I History, Culture and Social Policy
- 1 Building a masterpiece The Sydney Opera House
- 2 A Time for Reflection Political Values in the Age of Distraction
- 3 Film and Art in the Australia of Nationalism and Cynicism
- 4 New Urban Domains Potsdamer Platz
- 5 The launch of The History Wars
- 6 The launch of The Longest Decade
- 7 Balmoral
- 8 The Decade of Moral Erosion The Stocktake
- 9 The launch of Churchill and Australia
- 10 The Lowitja O'Donoghue Oration
- 11 Neoclassicism
- 12 Eulogy On the death of Bill Bradshaw
- 13 Australian Labor Party Gala Federation Dinner
- 14 The Centenary of Federation Beyond the Celebrations
- 15 For the New Australia
- 16 Obsession Australia and the Challenge of Asia
- 17 Introduction to Mahler's Symphony No. 2
- 18 The launch of 'In Denial The Stolen Generations and the Right'
- 19 The Labor Government, 1983-96
- 20 The Compact City Urban Design and Architecture
- 21 Bankstown City Silver Jubilee
- 22 ALP Life Membership Acceptance Speech
- 23 Eulogy On the Death of Geoffrey Tozer
- 24 The Privacy Imperative in the Information Age 'Free-for-All'
- Part II International Relations and Foreign Policy
- 1 Peace and Prosperity
- 2 Australia and Asia The New Order after the Financial Crisis
- 3 Leadership and Change
- 4 APEC Australia's Biggest Seat at its Biggest Table
- 5 The Death of President Soeharto
- 6 John Curtin's World and Ours
- 7 China and its Challenges
- 8 A Prospect of Europe
- 9 Eliminating Nuclear Weapons A Survival Guide for the Twenty-first Century
- 10 Obsession Revisited
- 11 Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration
- 12 Australia and Asia
- 13 Notes on the State of the World
- 14 The Perilous Moment Indonesia, Australia and the Asian Crisis
- 15 Leadership, Asia and the Digital Economy
- 16 Implications for the Strategic Architecture of the Asian Hemisphere
- 17 China and the Challenge of Asian Regionalism China in the Twenty-first Century
- Part III Australian and International Economic Policy
- 1 Australia
- 2 The Story of Modern Superannuation
- 3 After the Crisis
- 4 Superannuation
- 5 The World Economy
- 6 Financial Innovation and Labour Reform in the Post-Industrial Age
- 7 Developing China
- 8 Picking the Peak
- 9 The New Global Mosaic
- 10 Vocational Education and Training
- 11 Human Resource Management
- 12 The Compassionate Agenda
- 13 The Irresistible Emergence of Emerging Markets
- 14 The Re-emerging Crisis
- Acknowledgements
- Index
