Interview with Paul Keating on Lateline.

[Matilda]

Tony Jones interiewed Paul Keating on Lateline last night, principally regarding the government's
proposed revisions to the cross-media ownership laws. He's starting to look and sound older these
days, but still has more fervour than the whole parliamentary party combined.

Here's a link for anyone interested:

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1740498.htm

In true ABC fashion, there is at least one error, which turns a sentence of Keating's into
gobbledegook - he's reported as saying the proposed new media laws are "ambition supported by
Everest". What he actually said was "ambition supported by avarice". ABC transcripts are always
full of howlers - I'd love to know where they find their staff.

And Tony Jones nailed it with one question to Keating, following an explanation of the government's
watering down of the super laws: "Why do you think it was that no-one in Federal Labor today
seems able to articulate as clearly as you just did these kind of political messages?"

Indeed.