Roy and HG interview Paul Keating (March 1996)

[@sourdoughbakeroz]

PJK was a proper world class leader. We didn't know what to do with him, so we kicked him out. We weren't used to being part of the conversation, internationally. We weren't used to having a leader. We have always been a nation of convicts, of followers, of the working class. Here we were, with an actual meat and potatoes intellectual - that is, someone with a genuine overview, with street smarts and an eye to the future. Our culture has no place for these people, so we shut him down and went with John Howard. Our country has suffered the little man's lack of vision ever since. The culture that little Johnny espoused has relegated us to the bottom of the pile internationally. Will we see another Keating any time soon? I doubt it.

[@BackwardsMoving]

Warwick Quinton I doubt it too - but I certainly hope we do, for all our sakes!

[@skyrimmer6635]

You are so right where are the statesmen of today with a vision for our country? R.I.P Bob Hawke.

[@bigyin2586]

Warwick Quinton apart from Howard and Abbott (and maybe Morrison), they've all been Keatings! At least, AFTER they became PM.

[@skyrimmer6635]

@@bigyin2586 You have to be trolling ; a critical thinking analysis of Howard, Abbott and Scumo would show that they have no vision what so ever apart from looking after the wealthy.

[@anugranmathimugan2778]

Will we see another Keating any time soon? Necessity will bare another . Lord know we need one.

[@pvkoz8698]

What a great clash of minds. You can see how smart they all are with their glances. Top shelf as always with Roy and HG and Paul Keating. Great meeting of minds.

[@pyrmontbridge4737]

HG's message is true now more than ever. A party has to have a grand long term vision and push it strongly without fear instead of getting bogged down in populist trivia.

[@bigyin2586]

pyrmontbridge yes, curse those stupid evil oiks.

[@peterhoare3219]

Albo and his crew seem to be in the right track in 2022. Done more than that ScoMo in 10yrs in three weeks....repaired relationships with most of the world, met with everyone, and navel gazing and wondering how in hell we are a TRILLION dollars in debt. I'd suggest GST goes to 15%. It'll be HIGHLY unpopular, but no-one will notice past next week. Everything goes up in price daily anyway. It'll get lost in the wind And the LABOR party is high spending? Give me a break.....

[@pyrmontbridge4737]

@@peterhoare3219 SloMo was an amateur at diplomacy. E.g. he thought he could score points by sucking up to the Trump regime by announcing an investigation into the origins of Covid. Firstly, this was not Australia's job to do, but the WHO. Why should Australia waste time and resources on it? Secondly, he somehow didn't foresee the China would get their back up and do sanctions on Australia. Yes, it was on unfair response, but have some foresight fellas. Plus the Americans never remembered it after a couple of days.

[@timbateson6791]

This election did change the course of Australian society - forever. I was away from Australia from January 1996 until the end of 2003. I left a country that was free and equitable and returned to an increasingly right wing, conservative, libertarian shit hole. Here we are in 2020 ruled by a libertarian, pentecostal kleptocracy that puts most fascist juntas to shame. If only we had a PJK in the wings and a country smart enough to elect him. Vale Australia. RIP.

[@piggly]

Calling the current government "libertarian" is an insult to libertarianism in itself

[@georgehastings2263]

The Lazy Nothing Party is destroying this nation via their half baked policies and underfunding them

[@donquixote8092]

Yes, I left many years ago because...well, similar views. I just can’t watch Australia any more it saddens me to the core.

[@sharonpace1693]

They were really good times compared to now.

[@piggly]

@bad1dobby keep thinking that, state simp.

[@lecolintube]

We so need more segments like this. Comedians let lose to ask the hard questions with politicians.

[@skjoli2649]

I wish he'd won.

[@bigyin2586]

So did the MSM.

[@gregsmith451]

He got thumped. The populace in no uncertain terms gave him the arse.

[@notsure1135]

Greg Smith and 11 years of the pungent fruits of arse then ensued...

[@thespamdance311]

Funny, they’re almost all backing the Liberals these days.

[@andyrob3259]

Yes the man that kickstarted privatisation of government business like Qantas, TAA and the CBA and whose Button car plan withdrew protection and all but destroyed the car industry and those jobs and whose floating of the dollar just to please farmers increased prices on everything. Yea bring him back.

[@rlpsydney7177]

PK is loving this interview!!

[@Homer482976]

I love the way Roy says - Paul, you and I go way back. These wonderful buffoons just made sh!t up on the fly :-)

[@jimcrawford5039]

Shit indeed!

[@paulsz6194]

It’s all a part of their theatre, have you heard them when on the radio?

[@louiseskip3488]

@@paulsz6194 there wit is unsurpassed. Brilliant!

[@Jeremy-f3s]

Part of John's characterisation of Roy was that he was this character whod been everywhere, done everything and knew everyone somehow. So he was there when Paul made his maiden speech.

[@brianclough]

Like him or loathe, you couldn't ignore Paul Keating. People forget that he had more than 21 years experience in Parliament, when he became PM. And what a change in politics, country, mindset etc in those 21 years that he was witnessed to and played his part, He was single minded and determined, he could be arrogant, petty and maybe even vicious at times. But he had a vision, he had his mind to his policies and he was prepared to back them. So even if you disliked him or Labour, you gotta admit, he played his part, he led and all things considered, he got more things right than wrong. And I'm saying all these things, as someone who opposed him during his Premiership. I think he great as Treasurer but not so much as PM. Looking back all these years after he left office, I have a grudging respect for him. He's a bloke who can take criticism and is prepared to answer the hard questions put to him.

[@brianmoylan1671]

PJK was the real deal . Like Gough , ahead of his time and his contempories. A great mind and vision for a modern nation.

[@jamesbuijs6742]

whats funny i Geoff fell because he couldn't work politics and was too harsh to the party and Keating fell because he couldn't work the Australian people and was a bit too harsh with telling things as they were

[@paulohara8967]

This is something that's lacking in modern politics. Someone with a VISION

[@austfirst4140]

Sadly, A thing of our past.

[@tj323i]

Shorten will most likely take a Victorian Labor vision to a federal platform. Strong long term vision there.

[@austfirst4140]

Taking any sort of Vision will guarantee Shorten Government. Re Electing a Liberal National Government whom have proven they are completely void of vision is a situation that no Australian can no longer tolerate. Sticking to the old ways to guarantee the profits of their Big Business supporters is retarding our Country. Change has to come, We have a right as Australians to live in relative comfort, with prosperity, Liberal Nationals are not delivering such.

[@michaelschulz336]

The IPA / LNP hillbillies have vision ....but it is all as Keating described it ....through the rear vision mirror

[@Dont_Gnaw_on_the_Kitty_1]

@@michaelschulz336 The LNP have a big great vision : keep Labor out.

[@KJezza]

I did put this out there for not just the true believers, but also because politics in Australia has descended into such farce that this seems to be just business as usual. And it's funny, except it's not funny any more.

[@paulseo8528]

I'd forgotten how progressive and visionary Paul Keating was. Pity he lost.

[@RoasterMcdougalify]

in hindsight he did amazing things for Australia and was a man ahead of his time.

[@gregsmith451]

Yep. So progressive. Remember when he said "2 blokes and a Cocker Spaniel don't make a family"?

[@michaelmccauley1976]

I agree, he was a visionary. Little Johnny was the wrong for the wrong time...

[@davidhester6648]

@@gregsmith451 back then, marriage wasn't legal and having a child wasn't really an option, as far as the economy is concerned, no kid = no family. Not my personal opinion, but a little context is required at the very least. One could even say, it would be less likely that people have the wealth and freedom they do now, if it wasn't for him and Hawke

[@margaretlawrence3385]

Yeah ushered in neoliberalism........ugh

[@BeatingAccess]

More of the population...more represented .....we are ALL stronger. I sit here on the 12th of March 2021 listening to this man and in turn watching the current governments ineptitude in the face of its treatment of women and really do see how bad a turn Australia did at this electoral fork in the road

[@themekonlordofthetreens6983]

You are quite right in my view.

[@bmccameron7642]

They were tough times and I've never voted Labor but I still respect PK for his intelligence and vision. Last of the straight shooters.

[@meryoor4727]

His intelligence, intellect and vision ought to have been worth your vote. Had people respected all of those things, and looked at the big picture, as he did, we might not be in the sad position we've been in for years.

[@doctorf7501]

My grandfather was a Tory politician, my family were liberal voters and I’d never voted for labor. That is until I qualified as a doctor and saw people with intrenched disadvantage. Before that I really believed in meritocracy… however, it fails more often than it succeeds. Some lazy idiots really do very well where as other people can be highly intelligent, motivated, altruistic and yet weighted down by their circumstances. The ironic result is lost productivity to the detriment of society as a whole. The economic and compassionate arguments stack against the liberals, solidly. Why do they exist then? Like the Republican Party in the US, they exist to represent business and to deceive the worker into voting against their own interests by flattering them. The flattering lie is that if you have a job and house that none of it is luck. That’s impossible, somewhere along the way you’ve enjoyed some luck. I’ve not been able to vote liberal since.

[@SaintlyAussie]

@@doctorf7501 Fully agree. The Liberals have been successful in convincing tradies that they have more in common with the big end of town than their work mates. Howard's battlers were nothing more than the schmucks who believed him.

[@Neil-yg5gm]

@@SaintlyAussie I doubt Labor has done any good for Australia. If the ALP has done any good it is only by getting us into runaway govt debt.

[@egyptology22]

Lol PK straight? If only you knew lolol

[@TheOneWhoMightBe]

Holy shit, this is a blast from the past. Well done, Algorithm.

[@NxDoyle]

Arguably Australia's greatest Prime Minister with inarguably Australia's two best athletes, racehorse owners and trainers, impresarios, entrepreneurs, political masterminds, polymaths...and, of course, satirists.

[@jimcrawford5039]

One term ? The greatest? Get a grip.

[@sstuddert]

@@jimcrawford5039 Greatness is not measured in the longevity of a leader's commission, but in the quality and influence of their policies. A great leader can do more good in one term than what a poor leader can manage to accomplish in four.

[@jamesbuijs6742]

@@jimcrawford5039 spent almost 2 terms as PM and was combined treasurer and PM for 13 years. plus Howard lost an estimated tillion dollars to other nations in the mining boom, created the housing bubble we have now with the halving of the Capital gains tax, and gave us the frankin credit that didn't stop double tax like Paul invented it for but to make it 0 tax loophole. and yet he was in for 12 years so by your standard he should be great

[@NxDoyle]

Sadly, the two main reasons PJK lost that election had nothing to do with the job he had done as Treasurer & PM. He was viewed as arrogant, which he was at times, but I'd contend that he had every right to be arrogant. And, 13 years is a long time for a party to be in power, according to the electorate, even if the government has been doing a damn good job. In the 13 years under Hawke and Keating, Australia came of age.

[@td23asus]

@jimmy Sorry, he was a *socialist*? Do you... know what socialism is? If anything what Roy was asking for, essentially nationalisation of banks and such, that's a very socialist idea (not to say its a bad one but still my point stands)

[@Skinski7]

@@td23asus Paul Keating was a member of the Australian Fabian Society which is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of socialism via the means of gradualism. Their original coat of arms was a wolf in sheep's clothing which was later replaced by a tortoise.

[@David-lr2vi]

@jimmy I would say “you are aware that Paul Keating “the raging socialist” instituted all the free market reforms we have today” but I won’t because your obviously not aware of anything and have no intention of becoming aware.

[@michaelschulz336]

@jimmy ...Keating was a principle member of the NSW right of the labour party .... Socialism is not their deal.

[@michaelschulz336]

@jimmy ....really? What makes you think I'm "a leftie"? Of course ,. Little Johnnie (the lying rodent. As his party members called him) ... Abbott (the pathological liar) .... and scomotose (the grubbiest and creepy of the lot.... all men of honour ,.. as honest as the day is long! LMAO

[@MrBat000]

paul keating was the best PM..I wish he lasted longer!

[@peterevans6102]

Aah, I remember the days when a politician had personality, come back PJK, your country needs you.

[@Neil-yg5gm]

Unemployment was at 11% when Keating was PM. Who needs that??

[@andyrob3259]

Yes the man that kickstarted privatisation of government business like Qantas, TAA and the CBA and whose Button car plan withdrew protection and all but destroyed the car industry and those jobs and whose floating of the dollar just to please farmers increased prices on everything. Yea bring him back.

[@Neil-yg5gm]

@@andyrob3259 Plus the money that Keating received from privatisation was used for recurrent spending eg pensions, health etc. In contrast the Howard/Costello privatisation money was used to pay off govt debt.

[@peterhoare3219]

@@Neil-yg5gm It was "The unemployment we had to have" to paraphrase.... Luckily we now have Labor in power! In shitty times.....from zero debt to one trillion in debt. And Labor "Can't be trusted with the economy"? Give me a break....🙄

[@Neil-yg5gm]

@@peterhoare3219 In 1996 govt debt was 18% of GDP and exploding. By 2007 Howard/Costello had reduced govt debt to zero. Then Rudd/Swan/ALP trashed the budget and we have not run a surplus budget since 2007

[@Mattsretiring]

Wow. An actual progressive politician and journalists that actually ask hard questions. Crazy that Roy n HG are primarily comedians

[@millsbuckss]

Years ahead of his time

[@ganneswilliams641]

I still can’t believe how John Howard won and by that huge amount.The most embarrassing time in Australian history.What was in the water that election day?

[@nathrogers7]

Change for change's sake.

[@peterhoare3219]

In the water? Was it "The boats" in those days? No, that came later.... I think 🤔

[@Burgo62]

A dose of common sense

[@peterhoare3219]

@@Burgo62 Amazing how much things change yet never seem to....all the same issues today

[@mattfrench2120]

@@Burgo62 Yes, John Howard certainly put our country on a good course. Look at where his party and the country has ended up

[@joelr2214]

I miss old Aussie tv

[@AussieTVMusic]

You rang?

[@thewhiteoxoverland]

Wow fascinating. Here we were. Poised right on the cusp of an election with an articulate and clever man being satirically interviewed by two great australian comedic geniuses and we're about to go into 3 terms of Howard liberal party backwards conservatism and then onto something even worse. Hansonism, clive palmerism , you get the gist..... I like to think I'm optimistic by nature, but there is a side of me that thinks we turned away right then from the nation we could have been and set a path forever to the one we are today. And it's such a shame. Perhaps there's no turning back now.....

[@dfhancock]

You're dead right...that WAS the turning point for your dear old land...god bless her....

[@peterhoare3219]

Albo and his crew are doing VERY WELL in 2022. Given the crap they were left to deal with. Repaired rships with everyone worldwide, increased minimum wage, trying to work out the submarines, and deal with the TRILLION debt from the "Low spending LNP" 🙄🙄 All in three weeks. Thumbs up to Labor as always!

[@pianowhizz]

Trump watched this and thought: 'Dammit Roy that's a bloody brilliant idea: we will storm the hill and set it on fire!'

[@LMatters1]

LMAO...hahaha!!

[@whitehouseplumber]

Dude 💀💀💀

[@Eric_412]

It’s ironic that in the mid 90’s Paul Keating had the vision for equal representation of men and women in the parliament that the LNP in 2021 still struggle with..

[@svendbosanvovski4241]

How I miss those days. Red Kezza, Roy and HG and Paul Keating doing the opposition slowly as he famously said.

[@MrWonka191]

More Keating!!!

[@cafts1]

A great loss to Australia. Howard was a step back to the 1950s. The only good thing Howard did was the gun buy back. Good on him for that, but had Keating prevailed, as great as Australia is, it would have been a much better place.

[@realaussiemale567]

Cathie Tozer Taking ppls guns off them, gee, hasn’t that worked out well? There’s now more illegal weapons out there than the legal guns that were removed from mostly responsible owners.

[@hecticdogz4483]

@@realaussiemale567 Well yes there tends to be more illegal than legal guns out there when I don't know... guns are illegal

[@Neil-yg5gm]

Howard took unemployment from 8% to 4% and govt debt from 18% of GDP in 1996 to zero by 2007. Unemployment was at 11% when keating became PM. Hawke/Keating were economic disasters

[@GG-ud8id]

@@realaussiemale567 True, but really, how frequent are mass shootings here?

[@waukivorycopse2402]

@@Neil-yg5gm Howard rode the wave of the fiscal policies of PK namely the massive foreign investment in Australia.

[@mrduuud]

Back in the day when politicians would put themselves in interviews like this that could go anywhere. There is no way the current crop of micro-managed, control-freaks would allow themselves to be exposed like this - to their own detriment.

[@aek1928]

PK for 1st Australian President!

[@nev7711]

Huge regrets that Paul Keating didn't continue longer as PM. What a joke Howard was an PM. Australia went backwards. Can't think of any major new policies under the Liberals.

[@michaelschulz336]

Little Johnny had policies ....fear and loathing ....class envy .... Racism ..... White picket fences and a comotose cultural, social and intellectual environment.

[@mangothing1604]

@@michaelschulz336 So true. Even as recently as last week on "Australia Talks", Howard couldn't bring himself to call the Cronulla riots racist. He believes that some cultures are better and others are to be assimilated or tolerated.

[@dfhancock]

I would send Howard, Bush and Blair off to the Hague to face trial for war crimes against humanity and if they went they would go down....

[@Mattsretiring]

GST...

[@Neil-yg5gm]

Unemployment went from 8% to 4% and govt debt went from 18% of GDP to ZERO by 2007. In 2007 we were debt free. Howard created APRA, Howard created the Marine Park network.

[@cathylegg530]

He looks exhausted, like he knew he wasn't going to make it. :-(

[@dabble778]

Yes, certainly unlike 1993

[@ronhudson364]

"What we're looking at here in this election is a stark choice of proven failure (your side) and potential disaster on the other." 3:15 that face lol

[@louiseskip3488]

I'm still laughing. Omg .

[@alexajessop4803]

I wish Albo would emulate him. He was a truly great man.

[@brontepetropoulos4755]

Trouble is Albo is woke

[@stupendous1068]

This can't have been long before he left office.

[@springtimevoodoo3956]

If he’d won in 1996, we’d have a very different country in 2020.

[@Jeremy-f3s]

I didnt realise the 7:30 Report used these two I thought John Clarke and Brian Dawe filled this slot. This was peak Roy and HG when they had Club Buggery on Saturday night and later found international fame with The Dream during the Sydney Olympics when theyd have athletes on from various countries.

[@KevKavanagh]

One of the saddest days in the country's history was when that despicable little knt Howard slithered over the line. He's responsible for so many atrocities, not the least being the enabling of Hanson and her mining of the poisonous shit from the darkest levels of the nation's psyche.

[@chriscox8547]

" Blood nut Kerry" lols

[@UilliamTighearnaigh]

Modern Pollies should take note….PJ kept his mouth shut till the question had been asked then gave a proper response and the interviewers kept their mouths shut till after the question was answered.

[@Hoopylasss11]

Unfortunately he lost, and the man who beat him was a divisive, dog whistling elitist who took Australia back to its racist roots and we've yet to recover...😢

[@the_gemmapelle434]

"Thank you very much bloodnut Kerry" 😂

[@russe19642]

Howard wouldn't have gone on as it would have just gone over his head

[@bigyin2586]

Friends together.

[@daijones101]

Roy Nailed it

[@derek5168]

A classic intention between three no nonsense funny guy's 😄

[@gepmrk]

'His growth has been restrained'...

[@themillwall442]

KEATING was a visionary on women, so fair play to him.

[@sunnydhamija549]

Recorded in a tv studio.

[@MrNoex63]

Those were the days...Roy & HG will be on the ABC's election night panel...lol

[@michaelschulz336]

Puts the right perspective on strayan politics ..... A cruel satire.

[@Toothily]

Sadly, it doesn’t seem like he was in his stride any longer. He had more or less completed ALP’s period of financial reforms.

[@SKIPPERBIRDWOOD]

They were asking serious questions cloaked in their usual banter, good questions too. I'm not sure he was expecting that. I loved the "light on the hill" suggestion because, for all his good ideas, Keating was the one whose obsession with free market ideology ran the Labor Party off its rails. It's lost it's identity now.

[@pattyyoung9959]

That free market thinking was the only time I was disappointed with him if I remember correctly. My sister and I ( rusted on labor voters) would watch 'question time' if he was going to be on . Haven't bothered alot since.

[@artysig9833]

We would have been a republic with our own head of state now.

[@nathancooper1]

Keating was the greatest leader we ever had and we blew it by voting him out before he got going. Such an error in hindsight. Now we are paying the price.

[@weburnitatbothends]

Would love to see them interview Scomo sometime

[@MsSez]

He wouldn’t get the jokes 🤦‍♀️

[@JamesBarrett23]

It is like PJK is describing a different reality, from the perspective of today.

[@davidpaull7612]

Unfortunately Australia went for Howard and we've been fucked ever since. A great moment in history. It's as if Roy could sense the impending doom.

[@hamo4558]

Prudent failure v's potential disaster..... lmao

[@nickvegas2459]

The last of the great Aussie politicians.

[@wellofbeersheba]

They don't call him 'red Kez' just because he has red hair! Took PJ a little to warm up and would have been great to see if there was not an election looming.

[@repentorperish1405]

You did not want to get within laceration range of that tongue.

[@Rossk58]

How "the brown began to ooze out" is not in greater and everyday use in Australia is beyond me.

[@petermaxwell2965]

Bring back Howard..keating, I mean keating !

[@grahamogorman7831]

My favourite PM

[@derek5168]

Interaction eff ing spell check

[@johnanthonycafe2993]

A lot of good legging Roy & HG into this campaign - Infallible Keating lost the election. His use by date had come.

[@louiseyvette2261]

Farkin oath, if the gov't would just farkin tax us less we wouldn't need farkin allowances

[@peterhoare3219]

Why is he not our P.M And I'm a hideous left winger.

[@missrhlittlewhite7878]

🔽 with his effing clocks

[@Kajpaje]

And they chose Howard. Sacre bleu.

[@abbeymclaren6778]

Love Prime Minister Keating With the 2best larrikins known to man... Gees can we have Meeting back.. Love HG They are trying to argue maths With Australians greatest Math man .good luck with that lol

[@tasallp]

PK seems pretty worn out here. Achieved so much though

[@johnnycomelately6341]

Brilliant, Australian, and that quality is diminishing

[@robertthomson2159]

Paulie buggered up that election. Sucked in Labor.

[@presidentoxford]

Keating as PM was an absolute nothing. No way leadership quality.

[@kingy002]

I totally disagree with you. Howard did so much damage to Australia, which Keating would not have done.

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

Keating was too smart for the average dumb Aussie. This reads now like Roy and HG giving him a pre-match pep talk.

[@Sabiyaakhi-g7j]

Hernandez Donald Wilson Betty Anderson Betty

[@ianmcleod3631]

Turns out keating liked the young sausage

[@daijones101]

Free shot wasted

[@Qwoap]

Keating not at the top of his game at this point. If only we had him for one more term !

[@mattgraham6231]

Honestly, the last great Prime Minister we had. Mr Keating was a forward looking politician. Now we just run from one election to the next.

[@Neil-yg5gm]

Great at what?? Destroying the country??

[@russe19642]

I wonder why howard didn't go on,small target

[@bigyin2586]

Russe why would "JWH" want to interrupt another ABC love-in?

[@jadesmith6823]

Yeah good call Paul 🤦 when you get more of the population representing our way of life and here we are in a sad Australian society of Asian, indian an Muslim arrogance without even trying to be Australian 🦘🤦

[@Neil-yg5gm]

Ah yes Keating, the man who gave us unemployment at 11% and 18% home loan interest rates. The man was a disaster.

[@Puppydoug]

18% interest rates. Hmmm, take a look at Treasurer Howard's interest rates under Malcolm Fraser!

[@Neil-yg5gm]

@@Puppydoug WE had more than 2 years of double digit unemployment under Keating. Only a few months under Fraser. Same goes for the interest rates. Keatings recession was worse in Australia than other places for some reason

[@rj2128]

They should have asked him about necrophilia.

[@scorpiuswireless1]

ONE WERK LATER HE LOST A RECORD 31 seats. Howard gained 29 seats. That took the smirk off Keatings mug.

[@mangothing1604]

And sent Australia back to a 50's mindset. LNP put the handbrakes on super, gave away mining revenues in unsustainable tax cuts, started chipping away Medicare...all short term election-winning thinking that plagues all sides of politics today. Imagine if we'd had 25+ years of 15% super savings and investments, all that mining revenue ploughed back into infrastructure, education and healthcare!!

[@Puppydoug]

Yes, but thanks to my hero, Maxine McKew in 2007, Howard became only THE SECOND PRIME MINISTER in Australia's HISTORY to lose his own seat in a Federal election. Karma.

[@sunnydhamija549]

Kerry looks great without the opsm spectacles.

[@thedolphin5428]

Dreadful comedy. Those two are just so unfunny.

[@louiseskip3488]

Jeep your obviously not Australian if you don't get the humor. They were legendary at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The whole world used to tune into the Dream.

[@thedolphin5428]

@@louiseskip3488 Sorry sweetheart, but you need to be told a few things to help you grow up. 1. I *am* Australian. I've known of Roy and HG ever since they started. Not once have they ever raised even a chuckle out of me. 2. People all over Australia and the world have different senses of humour. Just because YOU find something funny DOES NOT MEAN anyone else will ... or should. 3. "The whole world" did not watch and laugh at Roy and HG at the Olympics. I certainly did not. Just a few sports tragics and national bogans watch the Olympics. 4. And in case you presume I "have no sense of himour", that is far from the case. I have a massive library of comedy videos. Roy and HG will never be in it. Get over it.

[@deshood3406]

Keating a grub like Hawke.

[@bigyin2586]

tradie 4theladies did he part the Red Sea too?

[@bigyin2586]

Hawke won elections, without needing opponents to have suicidally unpopular industrial relations and tax policies to do it.