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Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has gone on the offensive: attacking the restauranteurs operating out of the Overseas Passenger Terminal at the Rocks and calling for the building to be partially demolished.
Mr Keating’s attack breaks the PM’s long silence since he left public life over a decade ago.
Mr Keating slammed the Terminal’s “Quay” noshery despite its being named Restaurant of the Year, saying that he did all the hard work on macro reform and that Quay manager John Fink had squandered the boom years and failed to build up the superannuation system.
The former leader also claimed that he could have beaten restauranteur Peter Doyle in the 1996 election if he’d had a few more months to get the Carmen Lawrence scandal behind him and blah blah blah.
Mr Keating was speaking at the Sydney Architecture Festival, expanding on his favourite topic—his plan to demolish half of Sydney so as to make it easier to see whatever is left standing.
Observers say that Mr Keating is simply bitter that no-one in the industry has taken him up on his suggestion to turn Keating! The Musical into a theatre restaurant. But although the former Prime Minister loves the musical about himself, he is at pains to point out that it was him, and not Keating! The Musical that broke the back of inflation during the 1992 recession.
