Paul Keating: Since we've been together, baby, what a ride we've had A rollercoaster j-curve through the good times and the bad And maybe you got the blues But ...

Paul Keating: Hey, good evening, I'm Paul Pleased to meet you all You had some dinner to eat, now you got a good seat See, there's nothing wrong with being inne...

I want to play with you tonight Hold me, that's all That's on my mind Baby, something feels so right Maybe we could play tonight I want to be so In love with y...

Alexander Downer: Look at me, I'm Alexander D Opposition Leader - now how'd that come to be? No idea, I woke up and I was here Lookin' like a superstar and feel...

I've got a love for you, just tell me you want it I've got a kiss for you, put your lips on it You've been so good to me, and baby, I'm ready I gotta keep close...

Gareth Evans: It's always the same Whenever she walks by My face is aflame And my mouth goes dry My pulse is racing And my heart goes pit-a-pat And I yearn for ...

Scrutineer: The '96 election is still hanging by a thread The last of the electorates will bring it to a head One tiny booth in Surry Hills has not returned it'...

Canberra's never lonelier or colder Than when you feel the heartbreak of defeat You'll never find a sympathetic shoulder On any bureaucratic street So when I mu...

Paul Keating: I wanna do you slowly, holy moly I wanna turn you inside out, upside down and roundabout Wrap you up like ravioli, roly poly I wanna make you mine...

Paul Keating: I've made a habit of collecting clocks Sleek antiques with ticks and tocks Didn't you ever wonder why? I hear the seconds as a perfect space Pushe...

They're counting up the votes across Australia And counting down the seconds of my years I've seen quite a few elections I know how to read projections I can re...

Paul Keating: There's a tale I heard Of an island man Tough and undeterred, he said "Haven't you heard? This land - our land!" "We belong" That's what the High...

Let's go back to 1990; it's not so far away Where with each misty morning dawns a more exciting day Peace and love are everywhere, defeating hate and greed That...

John Hewson: Doctor who? Doctor Hewson! Sit up straight when I'm talking to you, son - the magical might from the radical right, I'm gonna light up the night wi...

John Howard: I was an angel in the beginning I thought of playing but not of winning So frail and weak, so meek and mild, I was the world's most agreeable child...

Paul Keating: And now We're living in a great creative nation Yet we wait somehow The battle for the country can't be won Until we understand How well we know o...

Paul Keating: I thought this moment would be nervous But tonight I'm full of joy I bless my twenty years of service As a Blaxland Bankstown boy A chance to make...

Paul Keating: I've been out there pacing Bracing for defeat Ready to be roasted And I felt that demon heat But I got lifted When I thought that I would fall Now...

Gareth Evans: Another morning in the PMC We've got the latest on the CAD It's only four percent of GDP But it's causing little tremors at the NA You want your f...

Gareth Evans: Now you've made it to the top And the Bodgie is dislodged Say a prayer for him and look At the punches that you took At the bullets that you dodge...

John Howard: Hang on a tic, just let me talk 'Cos you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm just a bloke, a normal bloke, and nothin' more I've got my home, I'v...