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29 August 2026
Friday essay: Don Watson’s book on Paul Keating ended their friendship – is it our best ever political memoir?
Speechwriter Don Watson’s insider account of the prime minister he worked for, written ‘in tragic mode’, was an instant bestseller – but Keating famously hated it.
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