From: Katherine Keating To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation(e; gmail.corn> Subject: Keating Interview Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:36:22 +0000 Paul Keating explains as never before KEI.I.N. EDITOR-M-IARCE The Australian October 22. 2011 12:00AM http://www.theaustralian.com.au/newsffeatures/paul-keating-explains-as-never-before/story-e6frg6z6- 1226173493029&ct=ga&cad=CAcQAhgAIAAoATAAOABAkPKI9QRIAVAAWABiBVVVuLVVT&cd=JW8oAOivUQ M&usg=AFQjCNHd0mUbAjc-2Iiiig3 exEbZmRt2w WITH his panoramic view of world affairs sharper than ever, Paul Keating blames the current global crisis on blunders by European and US leaders and warns that Australia must rediscover the keys to national success. Interviewed in his Sydney office, furnished in a style he calls "the last gasp of revolutionary classicism", Keating's new 600-plus page book sits atop his desk, an insight into his intellectual, aesthetic and political obsessions. What has Keating been doing since he left office in 1996? He has been travelling, speaking and analysing the world and Australia with undiminished intensity suggesting a man operating as prime minister-in-exile. His idea of leadership is more philosophical than ever, more distant from Bob Hawke or John Howard. His focus is the synthesis between beauty and reason and his book encompasses China's currency, the world malaise, Mahler's Symphony No2 and breaking the republic with the Queen. "The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction," Keating tells me. In retirement, his political inspiration comes from music and beauty, not opinion polls. There are signs he has mellowed. While ruthless with his judgments Keating is keen to support a struggling Labor Party while addressing the source of its strategic demise. "The failure of the Rudd and Gillard administrations is the lack of an over-arching story, the lack of a compelling story," he says when intervi