Even potty-mouthed Paul Keating considered Peter Walsh, who died this month, to be in a class above him for rough-house political invective. Blame ‘Old Sid Vicious over there’, Keating told an angry Labor minister Gary Punch when his ham-fisted cabinet submission was demolished in a Hawke government pre-budget Expenditure Review Committee.
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Michael Baume is a former Liberal Senator and The Speccie’s financial guru.
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