Paul Keating

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Born 18 January 1944, Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian politician who served as both the Prime Minister of Australia and the Labor Party Leader from 1991 to 1996.

He served as Treasurer in the Hawke Government from 1983 to 1991. Keating was born in Sydney and dropped out of school at the age of 14.

He joined the Labor Party at a young age, serving as the state president of Young Labor for a term and working as a research assistant for a trade union and consulting as a research assistant for a trade union.

He was elected to the House of Representatives at the age of 25, winning the Division of Blaxland in the 1969 election.

In the days of the Whitlam Government, Keating served as Minister for Northern Australia for a brief period.

Since Labor regained control in 1975, he held increasingly senior positions in Gough Whitlam and Bill Hayden's Shadow Cabinets.

Early life and education

Keating was born in Darlinghurst, Sydney, on January 18, 1944. He was the first of four children born to Minnie (née Chapman) and Matthew John Keating. His father worked as a boilermaker for the New South Wales Government Railways. Both of Keating's grandparents were born in Australia. He descended from Irish immigrants born in counties Galway, Roscommon, and Tipperary, according to his father. He was of mixed English and Irish descent on his mother's side. Fred Chapman, his maternal grandfather, was the son of two convicts, John Chapman and Sarah Gallagher, both of whom were arrested for robbery in the 1830s.

Keating grew up in Bankstown, a working-class suburb in western Sydney, with the family's home from 1942 to 1966 being a small fibro and brick bungalow on 3 Marshall Street (demolished for flat construction in 2014). Anne Keating, a company president and businesswoman, is one of his siblings. Keating left De La Salle College, which is now LaSalle Catholic College, at the age of 14, rather than attending higher education, and instead worked as a pay clerk at the Sydney County Council's electricity distributor. Keating continued his education at Belmore Technical High School. He spent time as a research assistant for a trade union before joining the Labor Party as soon as he was eligible. He became president of New South Wales Young Labor in 1966. Keating also operated The Ramrods, a rock band during the 1960s.

Personal life

Annita van Iersel, a Dutch-born flight attendant for Alitalia, married Keating in 1976. They had four children who spent some of their teenage years in The Lodge, Canberra's prime minister's official residence. In November 1998, the couple first met in November 1998. Annita had revived her maiden name long before then, although they did not officially divorce until 2008. Keating had announced his relationship to fashion consultant Kristine Kennedy before his marriage to van Iersel in 1972, but they did not marry. Julieanne Newbould, actress Julieanne Newbould, has been Keating's companion since 1998. Katherine Keating's daughter is a former New South Wales minister and former New South Wales Premier Bob Carr.

Keating retired from the family's house in Bankstown in the early 1970s when he bought a new brick-veneer house at 12 Gerard Avenue, Condell Park, two doors up from his parents' new home at No. 129. 8 Gerard Avenue is a street in Gerard, Virginia. This was his family's house after his marriage in 1976 to 1983, when the Keatings sold the property for $123,000 and moved to a one-story rental house in Canberra's suburb of Red Hill to be closer to work.

Keating's hobbies include Gustav Mahler's music and collecting French antique clocks. He lives in Potts Point, inner-city Sydney, and has a holiday home on the Hawkesbury River.

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Early political career

Keating met future senior Labor figures like Laurie Brereton, Graham Richardson, and Bob Carr via his connections in the unions and Young Labor, then known as Youth Council. He also developed a relationship with former New South Wales Premier Jack Lang, who was formerly Premier Jack Lang, who took over as a political mentor. Lang was recalled to the Labour Party in 1971, and he did a good job. Keating received the Labor nomination for Blaxland's seat in Sydney's western suburbs, and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1969, just 25 years old.

Keating's initial speech was more centrist; he said that the Liberal Government had been "boasting" about the rising number of women in the workforce. I think it is something we should be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of. In 1973, he voted against former Prime Minister John Gorton's attempt to criminalize homosexuality. He started off as a "very narrow-minded young man" who later "matured" and became much more conservative, according to Tom Uren.

Keating barely got to serve in the Cabinet following Labor's victory in 1972, instead being a backbencher for the majority of the Whitlam Government. He was eventually named Minister for Northern Australia in October 1975, but he continued in the position until Governor-General John Kerr controversially sacked him the following month. Keating called the dismissal a "coup" and suggested that we "arrest [Kerr]" and "lock it down," in a 2013 interview with Kerry O'Brien, who added that he would not have "taken] it lying down" if he were prime minister.

Keating was quickly recruited to the Shadow Cabinet after Labor's defeat in the 1975 election and served as Shadow Minister for Minerals, Resources, and Electricity until 1981. During this period, he made a name for himself as a flamboyant and ardent parliamentary performer, adopting the style of an ardent debater. He was elected president of the New South Wales Labour Party in 1981, making him the head of the influential Labor Right party. He first backed former Treasurer Bill Hayden for Labor Leader over former ACTU President Bob Hawke as leadership tensions between the two men increased; he later stated that part of his reasoning was that he secretly wished to replace Hayden himself in the near future. However, the members of his faction had swung behind Hawke by 1982, and Keating supported his challenge. Gareth Evans, a fellow Labour politician, wrote a letter expressing Keating's support for Hawke.

Although Hayden escaped the challenge, pressure continued to build on him. In an attempt to solidify his position, Hayden promoted Keating to the role of Shadow Treasurer in January 1983. However, this was insufficient, and Hayden resigned a month later, after a poor by-election result in Victoria's federal electorate. Hawke was voted unopposed to replace him and Hawke subsequently led Labor to a landslide victory in the 1983 election just six weeks later.

Post-political career

Keating moved to Woollahra, the affluent eastern Sydney suburb. He accepted his role as a director of several companies and also served as a senior advisor to Lazard, an investment banking company. Keating was also elected to the Chinese Government Development Bank's advisory council. He was also appointed a visiting professor of public policy at the University of New South Wales and was given honorary doctorates in law from Keio University (1995), the National University of Singapore (1999), and Macquarie University (2012). Keating declined to serve as a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1997, an honour given to all former prime ministers since the new Australian Honours System was introduced in 1975. On his dismissal, Keating said that he had long believed that honours should be reserved for those who live in the community and that being prime minister was sufficient public recognition.

Engagement: Australia Faces the Asia-Pacific, his first book since leaving office, was published in 2000. During his time as Prime Minister, he concentrated on foreign policy during his time as Prime Minister. Don Watson, Keating's former speechwriter and advisor, published Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Annita Keating, Keating's then-estranged wife, who said that the book understated her contribution, was the first thing Watson dismissed. Keating himself was so dissatisfie with the novel that it brought the two men's friendships to an end.

Keating avoided public speaking during the Howard administration initially, but he did give occasional speeches condemning his successor's social policies. Keating joined former Labor Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke to campaign against Howard, describing him as a "old antediluvian 19th century believer" who was "absurdest to the position" as a "desiccan obscurantist" who wants to "stomp forever...on ordinary people's right to organise themselves at work. When referring to Howard Howard's suspected pact to fork over the executive after two terms, he also described it as "all tip and no iceberg."

Keating, a former prime minister who lost in the 2007 election, joined former prime ministers Whitlam, Fraser, and Hawke in Parliament House in February 2008 to see new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd deliver the National Apology to the Stolen Generations. He appeared at the book launch of Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution, written by economist David Love in August 2008. Among the topics discussed during the launch were the need to raise mandatory superannuation contributions, as well as reviving incentives for people to receive their superannuity payments in annuities.

In 2013, Keating appeared in a series of four-hour interviews with Kerry O'Brien, which were televised on ABC in November of that year. The series chronicled Keating's birth, his aspiration to Parliament, his years as Prime Minister and Prime Minister, as well as documenting his academic, musical, and artistic passions, as well as Australia's integration into Asia. The interviews became the basis for O'Brien's book Keating: The Interviews, a 2014 publication. Keating has consistently stated that he would not write a book, so his collaboration with O'Brien was regarded as the closest he'll get to producing an autobiography. Troy Bramston, a writer for The Australian and a political scholar, wrote an unauthorised biography in which Keating worked with Paul Keating, "The Big-Picture Leader." Bramston was given full access to Keating's personal papers and was also interviewed over 100 others. It was described as the "authoritative" and "definitive" Keating biography by a "first class" political historian.

Keating spoke out against the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ("nutters" during campaigning for the federal election in 2019. His remarks attracted media attention, and Labor Leader Bill Shorten distanced himself from Keating's positions. Keating later issued a joint statement with Bob Hawke supporting Labor's economic strategy as part of the election campaign, and condemning the Liberal Party for "completely [giving] up the economic transition agenda." "Shorten's Labor is the only faction of government focusing on the urgent problem of our time: human caused climate change," the two groups said; it was the first joint press statement issued by the two groups since 1991. On June 14, Keating spoke at Hawke's state memorial service, where he spoke about the two's "strong friendship and collaboration" that the two families had enjoyed together.

Following the announcement of the AUKUS trilateral military alliance between the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, Keating sluggish and faded Anglosphere, saying that "Australia turns its back on the 21st century, the century of Asia," in which the country and its military forces are "locking the country and its military forces into the force structure of the United States by purchasing US submarines." Keating continued to criticize Labor's opposition foreign affairs spokesperson Penny Wong, accusing the Labor opposition of being complicit with the Liberal government in "false representation of China's foreign policy." Anthony Byrne and Peter Khalil, two Labor MPs, chastised his remarks. "Britain suffers delusions of grandeur and significance deprivation," Keating accused British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss of making "demented" remarks about Chinese military aggression in the Pacific in January 2022.

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