Paul Keating never made a secret of his “bust down the doors” approach to reforming the entrenched economic and political forces that suffocated Australia in the three decades following World War II.

As member for Blaxland, Keating broadcast his reformist zeal to whoever would listen, as shown by articles written by Jennifer Hewett, Russell Schneider, Max Walsh and Bob Carr in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Bulletin in 1981 and 1982.