The Burning Platform for Economic Reform

Keating: I don't think we were ever very good at it. It's really in motivating public appetite for the difficult things, like bringing the budget deficit back under control that you've got to construct that burning platform. And that's what Keating did. The whole main platform there as well and had to do with concerns about pressure on the currency,. which officials and governments have been wrestling with for a very long time before those decisions were taken in 1983.