Kim Williams shares Paul Keating’s lesson on art of persuasion

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n the corner of Kim Williams’ ABC office, in the sunlit crow’s nest of the public broadcaster’s Ultimo headquarters in Sydney, is a poster of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. It has two signatures – Star Wars creator George Lucas (“May the Force be with you,” he writes), and producer Rick McCallum (“You are my Yoda!”). It serves as a reminder to Williams that, with considerable persistence, the seemingly impossible can happen.