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Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He previously served as the treasurer of Australia under Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1991 and as the seventh deputy prime ...
May 7, 2024 · Paul Keating is a politician who was the leader of the Australian Labor Party and prime minister of Australia from December 1991 to March 1996. Growing up in working-class Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, Keating left school at age 14.
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Jun 16, 2020 · Paul Keating was one of Australia’s most charismatic and controversial prime ministers. Born in Bankstown, New South Wales, into an Irish-Catholic, working-class and Labor-voting family, he left ...
Feb 19, 2024 · Feb 21, 2024 – 5.00am. Former prime minister and treasurer Paul Keating has used his 80th birthday to urge Australians and their political leaders to break out of a “timidity” in the nation ...
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Dec 9, 2022 · Paul Keating's Redfern speech, delivered to a sceptical if not hostile audience in the inner-Sydney suburb hailed "the black capital", on December 10, 1992, is a rare exception.
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Paul John Keating was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 18 January 1944. He was the first of four children of Matt and Min Keating, and grew up in Bankstown, an industrial outer western suburb of Sydney. He attended a Catholic school, De La Salle College, and later studied at Belmore and Sydney Technical Colleges.
Paul Keating was Australia’s 24th Prime Minister and held office from 20 December 1991 to 11 March 1996. Keating first entered parliament when he won the House of Representatives seat of Blaxland in 1969. He was only 25 years old, making him one of the youngest federal parliamentarians. Keating's first Cabinet post was Minister for Northern ...
