“Because in the end those kind of conservative tea-leaf-reading focus group driven polling types who I think led Kim into nothingness, he's got his life to repent in leisure now at what they did to him.”

—  Paul Keating

On Kim Beazley's ALP Leadership, Lateline interview, June 7 2007.

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