Stirring paeans to classical music are about as common in Australian public life as admissions of inferiority in political interviews. Yet with characteristic panache during an exchange with Kerry O’Brien, Paul Keating delivered both at once. Even as he prepared the budget papers, Keating said, he knew that government business was pedestrian stuff compared to the greatness of a Mahler symphony.
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