Keating – The Musical Annotations

All lyrics written and copyrighted by Casey Bennetto, 2004.

Annotations written by Loki Carbis, 2009.
The assistance and advice of Casey Bennetto in the
creation of these annotations is gratefully acknowledged.
This page is intended for informational purposes only.

Be warned that, if you haven’t seen the show, they contain massive massive spoilers for the plot. On the other hand, if you know your Australian political history, that shouldn’t matter much either.

Annotations are colour-coded thusly: Historical references look like this:
Historical references		 and Cultural references look like this:
Cultural references

  1. Overture *
  2. My Right-Hand Man
  3. Do It In Style
  4. I Remember Kirribilli
  5. It’s Time
  6. Ruler Of The Land
  7. The Beginning Is The End
  8. On The Floor
  9. I Wanna Do You Slowly
  10. Sweet
  11. Antony Green *
  12. The Arse End Of The Earth
  13. Freaky
  14. Heavens, Mister Evans
  15. Redfern
  16. Ma(m)bo
  17. Power
  18. The Mateship
  19. Choose Me
  20. The Light On The Hill
  21. Historical Revisionism

Titles marked * have no lyrics.

Primary Sources
Selected references for the people and the politics.

February 17th, 2009 | Leave a comment