Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader in conversation with Troy Bramston.

This free public event marked the release of the definitive biography of Australia’s 24th Prime Minister, and the first that Keating has cooperated with in more than two decades. Keating and Bramston discussed current political events and reflected on Keating's rise to power, his time in government and his passions and interests since.

Drawing on around 15 hours of new interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his extensive personal files, their book tells the story of a political warrior’s ascent, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into Parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the last days of the Whitlam Government; his path-breaking term as Treasurer in the 1980s; his four-year prime ministership from 1991 to 1996; and his passions and interests since.