Foxy,
the last two on your list were abject failures & you conveniently forgot about no australian child shall live in poverty by 1992. Medicare ? When Joh was QLD Premier we didn't need Medicare in the first place.

Keating polarised society, with the lasting effects being obvious in politics today. He also allowed housing interest rates to climb to 17% (Mr 17%), destroying many homeowners in the process.

Hawke believed in consensus and I would say that was by far his most positive and constructive attribute. Hawke was going soft in the head when he imagined that Julia Whatshername might be judged a little more kindly by history. She was the very opposite to him, thriving for a time in practicing the dark arts of political intrigue, and socially divisive, very divisive.

Both Hawke and Keating had the commitment and social conscience that Julia Whatshername lacked.

Dear Individual,

You can Google the facts for yourself and they
dispute your opinion.

Dear OTB,

Again with the name calling ...
Dear oh dear!

We've yet to see how history will judge the previous PM
whose name happens to be - Julia Gillard.
It is rather boorish and nasty behaviour to continue to indulge
in name calling. Didn't your parents teach you better than that?

Foxy,

Referring to 'Julia Whatshername' is name-calling you declare?

It is a matter of public record that she and you have called many, many people far worse names than that, and often! LOL

Both Julia Whatsername and you are such skilled devotees of the dark arts of sledging. But then in both cases practice makes perfect as they say.

There must be hundreds of your posts on here where you dish it out to anyone who questions your jaundiced slant on your fellow Australians for starters. But you would be proud to never have changed any of your opinions.

From my observations, the Australian labor partys slide began once they knived Bob.

Before then, I was a proud labor voter, even as an employer.

In my view he was a great loss.

He was as close as any Polly could get to a real life person.

Loved a drink and a good laugh, loved his cricket and footy and who will ever forget his heart felt speach 'any boss who sacks anyone today is a bum'.

A true legend for mine.

rehctub,

Might you be remembering Hawke's joke told to a Labor Party dinner in Melbourne in 1981 about the raffles held in India, where the tradition was that the prizes were in reverse order to those in the West?