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Inspired by recent events in the region. With a POD anytime after the 2013 Australian election, get Paul Keating to make an improbable Churchillian [or Mahatirian] comeback as leader of the ALP and chart a brief outline scenario as to how things would go under his leadership and potential second premiership?
How does he fare against Abbot or Turnbull? How would a resumption of his ambitious 'Big Picture' politics play out in the 21st Century? Are we to see renewed debates over the Republic? What does PK do about the boats? Aboriginal reconciliation? Gay Marriage?
On economics and geopolitics: How does Keating handle the end of the mining boom? Where would he stand on trade and the TPP? How would a hypothetical Keating-Trump bilateral play out? And perhaps most crucial to Australia's position in the emerging Asian Century, how does the Sinophile Keating deal with the increasingly assertive and meddlesome China of Xi Jinping?
I suppose one can glean some of the answers by quite simply watching his many interviews and speeches on YouTube but I'll leave to the Aussie and Aussie-phile members of the board to use their creativity and intuition to fill in the blanks.