For Paul Keating, there have always been two kinds of politics: ‘high tone’ and ‘low rent’. High tone was to be embraced and promoted. Low rent was simply to be dismissed.
One incident from the early 1980s demonstrates these sharp differences graphically. At the time, Keating, as party president, was chairing a meeting of the NSW ALP Administrative Committee in Sussex Street.
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