Kim Beazley Quotes on Change (2 Quotes)

Our reform legacy by then had not produced a substantial rise in wages and job opportunities. People saw the hard side of reform but not the gains. Many ... traditional Labor supporters carried the brunt of the change and sheeted home the blame to him.

Two or three big, all-embracing ideas, presented confidently, could have won him the 1998 election. But there seemed something within Beazley that shied away from big, all-embracing ideas, or even speaking directly. Appropriately, he began presenting himself as the nice guy - Snugglepot with brains. When the actual election campaign began he could have arisen in a blaze of illumination as the statesman with answers, presenting a big picture of an Australia that had a place in its own future. He went on talking, but the only transformation was that Snugglepot became Cuddlepie.