Paul Keating loved politics. By the time he left Parliament in 1996 he had spent over half his life there. He began his parliamentary career at 25, one of the youngest federal politicians ever.
Before becoming Prime Minister he had been Treasurer for eight years. Only Arthur Fadden, a former Prime Minister, had been Treasurer longer.
Keating's initiatives as Prime Minister included establishment of the Republican Advisory Committee, the passage of indigenous land rights legislation and reform of vocational education and training.
Earlier, as Treasurer, he had pursued a radical policy of economic deregulation.
His particular achievements as Prime Minister included the passage of the Native Title Act, encouraging the process of reconciliation between Aboriginal and other Australians, the introduction of policies encouraging economic competitiveness, and debate over the possibility of an Australian republic.
Hon. Paul Keating was Prime Minister from 20 December 1991 to 11 March 1996.
Born: 18 January 1944 at Sydney, NSW.
Paul John Keating was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 18 January 1944. He married Anna ('Annita') von Iersel in 1975 and they have four children.
He is the first of the four children of Matt and Min Keating. He 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.
Keating left school at 15, the year he joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He worked in clerical jobs before joining the staff of the Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union, which is the trade union representing workers in local government. He became the union's industrial advocate (the offic...
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After more than four years in office Keating took the nation to his second election as Prime Minister on 2 March 1996. By this time mounting foreign debt, high unemployment and high interest rates were causing widespread concern, and his government's ability to manage the economy was increasingly in question. Labor suffered a resounding defeat, the Liberal-National Party coalition under the Opposition leader, John Howard, winning convincingly. Keating immediately resigned as Labor leader and quit parliament. Kim Beasley, previously his Treasurer, then took over the Labor leadership and became Opposition leader. Keating retired from public life and devoted himself to developing business interests.
He had a history of involvement with the labor movement and the Australian Labor Party. Spending much of his working life as a union official.
Like many of Manitoba's elite, Sifton was born in Upper Canada (Ontario) and came to Manitoba with his family as a youth. Trained as a lawyer, Sifton made his career first in provincial and later in federal politics. He was elected as a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in 1888, and he served in the Greenway cabinet from 1891 to 1896 as Attorney General and Minster of Education. It was in the latter capacity that he played a central role in negotiating the Laurier-Greenway Compromise that partially resolved the contentious issue of religious schooling in the province. In 1896, Sifton went to Ottawa as a Member of Parliament, where he served as Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. It is with this office that Sifton's name is synonymous.
The National Apology of 2008 is the latest addition to the key aspects of Australia’s reconciliation towards the Indigenous owners of our land. A part of this movement towards reconciliation is the recognition of Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders rights to their land. Upon arrival in Australia, Australia was deemed by the British as terra nullius, land belonging to no one. This subsequently meant that Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders were never recognised as the traditional owners. Eddie Mabo has made a highly significant contribution to the rights and freedoms of Indigenous Australians as he was the forefather of a long-lasting court case in 1982 fighting for the land rights of the Torres Strait Islanders. Eddie Mabo’s introduction of the Native Title Act has provided Indigenous Australians with the opportunity to state claim to their land, legally recognising the Indigenous and the Torres Strait Islanders as the traditional owners.
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House of Commons in 1874. There he rose rapidly to leadership. Although he was a
Summary of Text: ‘The Redfern Address’ is a speech that was given to a crowd made up of mainly indigenous Australians at the official opening of the United Nations International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in Redfern Park, New South Wales. This text deals with many of the challenges that have been faced by Indigenous Australians over time, while prompting the audience to ask themselves, ‘How would I feel?’ Throughout the text, Keating challenges the views of history over time, outlines some of the outrageous crimes committed against the Indigenous community, and praises the indigenous people on their contribution to our nation, despite the way they have been treated.
Was it because of his part in the decline of the Liberal party? Or was