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Brian Burke at His Home in Trigg Beach with Wife Sue, and Grandkids William and Amelie in 2015. Brian Burke Memoir a Tumultuous Brian Burke at his home in Trigg Beach with wife Sue, and grandkids William and Amelie in 2015. Brian Burke memoir A Tumultuous Life set to ruffle WA politics Linda Parri, PerthNow January 22, 2017 12:05am THE shadow of twice-jailed former WA premier Brian Burke will loom large over the State once again with the release of a revealing 550-page tell-all book about his controversial life. A Tumultuous Life is set to send shock waves through the West Australian political establishment, with Burke saying his account would be “absolutely truthful” with “nothing left out”. The autobiography includes his dealings with current members of parliament, more than a decade after he was forced to resign from the Labor Party following the Corruption and Crime Commission inquiry into his activities as a lobbyist. 1 “The autobiography will reopen some wounds and I hope that it will heal some others. I have written it with honesty and candour. It is what it is,” he said, In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times, Mr Burke — the Labor premier during the WA Inc era of the 1980s — conceded he had made “mistakes”, but said he had “nothing” to apologise for to the people of this State. The father of six also opened up about the emotional toll of his time behind bars, with the book beginning with a description of his degrading arrival at Canning Vale Prison in 1994 after he was jailed for rorting travel expenses. Brian Burke with Alan Bond after the America's Cup win. “Take your clothes off Burke. All of them, your underpants too. Lift your arms and legs ... one at a time and now lift your balls and squat ... slowly, stay down,” the book 2 describes of his first encounter with a prison officer. “Okay, put your clothes on and get back in line. We’re in charge now.” Mr Burke said there was one moment when he felt physically threatened behind bars, but the only time he became emotionally overwhelmed was on his release. “It was hard to hold yourself together all the time. And when I was released from prison, yes I was a bit emotional and overcome when I went to see my son play football at the local ground. It was just the relief,” Mr Burke, now aged 69 and living in Perth’s northern suburbs, said this week. His wife of 52 years, Sue, added: “And the team came up and said, ‘Welcome back Mr Burke’. They were lovely, the boys. Brian is an emotional person. He’s not frightened to show his feelings.” In 1997, Mr Burke also served five months of a three-year sentence for multiple counts of stealing a total $122,585 in campaign donations, before the conviction was overturned on appeal. It took Mr Burke 18 months to write the 200,000-word self-published autobiography. The book is finished, but the publication date has been “deliberately delayed” until after the State election in March to avoid controversy. He said Sue had pushed him to write the book for the past decade so their descendants would have a record of his side of the story. “People will have to judge the book for themselves but I say at the start that I’m not trying to rewrite history,” Mr Burke said. “There are too many political memoirs that simply set out to say that everything the person who wrote the book did was right. “I haven’t done that. I’ve admitted all of the mistakes that I’ve made. I’ve detailed the mistakes.” He said he’d lived a life “of success, of failure and of regret”. 3 “I can honestly say that there’s never been one occasion when I’ve done anything that I didn’t think was in the best interests of Western Australia when I made the decision,” Mr Burke said. But he accepted blame, including his government’s decision to bail out businessman Laurie Connell’s merchant bank Rothwells with public money. “Perhaps it was a wrong decision and that it led to a chain of events that no one could see,” Mr Burke said. “But still, I accept full responsibility.” The book includes his views on former WA Premiers Carmen Lawrence and Peter Dowding as well as at least 15 businessmen including Andrew Forrest, Robert Holmes a Court, Lang Hancock and Alan Bond. He said it may upset some people. Asked if he would apologise to West Australians, Mr Burke said: “No. I did my best.” “And compared to the governments in other states at the same time, our performance was better. “And we had the biggest victories in the Labor party’s history. “I was someone who, at the age of 34, won the premiership and then did his best every single day. “And I don’t apologise for any of that. “And I certainly don’t apologise for things like the travel allowance charges.” The book will be available at atumultuouslife.com.au Snippets from A Tumultuous Life by former WA Premier Brian Burke: • Sometimes it was very hard to write this book. I was forced to look back to my mistakes and how I’d hurt the people I love the most – my family. • My first day at the Brigidine Convent was traumatic. Mother Delores – a small, dark nun with sharp features and bony fingers – led me crying into the middle of a group of frightened five-year-olds. 4 • In 1983 I led Labor to its biggest ever election victory. The record lasted until 1986 when we won with an even bigger vote. Bill Hassell seemed lost for words. “I don’t think people actually dislike me. I think it is just that they like Burke.” • It was frightening. The confidential minute prepared by Sir Charles Court, showed the debt from the North West Shelf Gas Project (NWSGP) could bankrupt the State. • “Bob,” Paul Keating said to the Prime Minister. “It’s just not on. just because Burkie’s got some harebrained scheme to mint gold coins in Perth, you can’t let him take over the Royal Mint’s job.” • I never saw anyone better than Paul Keating. Like the AFL footballer Wayne Carey at his best, Keating came closest to being the total package. Luckily for Labor, what he lacked, Bob Hawke had, and together they were unbeatable. • Alan Bond’s later life was shot through with sadness. Laurie Connell liked to portray himself as the working class boy, a battler who despised the establishment. Yet he craved the approval of society’s elite, and bought his way in. Robert Holmes à Court was just 53 when he died in 1990 of a heart attack so severe that, I was told, he could not have been saved had the heart ambulance been parked at his bedside. • “Twiggy” Forrest is the best salesman I’ve met. He’s not as good as Robert Holmes à Court at financial engineering, and he’s not as personable and humorous as John Roberts, but he’s better than both of them at selling. As a school cadet Denis McInerney marched on display and his grandmother said: “Look at my Denis, he’s the only one in step.” Grandmother McInerney was right. Her grandson has always been in step, but just with himself not with the rest of us. • I don’t know where he came from – Mars, I think! Everyone knew Dallas Dempster, who was propelled to prominence when he almost single- handedly conceived and built the Burswood Casino, but no one knew anything about him. • At Canning Vale Prison, it was hard to ignore the tinge of hot danger infecting everything that happened every day. Everybody was on edge. The “screws” rarely relaxed, and the prisoners, resentful and angry were unpredictable and often threatening. 5 • Bruno Romeo was the most frightening man I’d ever met. He carried with him an air of menace. Officers and inmates feared him. His reputation for unpredictable and murderous violence, as I would learn more about later, was known throughout the prison. • After the Court of Criminal Appeal set me free, no one apologised for the months I’d spent in prison. I just packed all my belongings into one cardboard box and went home tired and worn out with worry. I really didn’t care much about anything and on the way home Sue and I stopped to watch our youngest son – Joe – at soccer training. That’s when it all got too much and I broke down and cried. • Of all the things that happened during the years I struggled with the Corruption and Crime Commission, there was nothing so distressing as the case of the father who killed himself just days before a public hearing. • Powers as pervasive as those given to the CCC should only be exercised by the best, brightest and most balanced minds. If the CCC is to benefit and not convulse the community, then it should not be a breeding ground for the power hungry or the complacent. http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/brian-burke-memoir-a- tumultuous-life-set-to-ruffle-wa-politics/news- story/306994a40489a3a52bec6599c8d0e61a 6 .
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