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10 unusual facts about Paul Keating


All Our Mob

The then Federal Opposition Leader, Alexander Downer, tipped All Our Mob in the race, and explained that winning was what ‘All our mob is going to do’ against ‘Mr Keating’ at the next election.

Birthday problem

An informal demonstration of the problem can be made from the list of Prime Ministers of Australia, of which there have been 27, in which Paul Keating, the 24th Prime Minister, and Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister, share the same birthday, 18 January.

Geoffrey Lancaster

In 1993, Geoffrey Lancaster was awarded the $240,000 four-year Australian Artists Creative Fellowship by Paul Keating and the Australia Council for his outstanding artistic contribution to the nation.

Gilbert Kaplan

At the post-performance dinner in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria, the keynote speaker was the then Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating, a noted aficionado of Mahler.

Hellenic Memorial, Canberra

Paul Keating, to mark the 50th anniversary of the battles of mainland Greece and Crete.

Jason Clare

The safe Labor seat Blaxland was the electorate of Prime Minister Paul Keating from 1969 to 1996.

Native title legislation in Australia

The recognition of the legal concept of native title in the Mabo Decision in 1992 led its recognition by the legislative system a year later when the Keating government enacted the Native Title Act 1993.

Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM

It is his account of the prime ministership of Australia of Paul Keating.

Robert Drewe

Awarded a special Australian Artists' Creative Fellowship by the then Prime Minister, Paul Keating.

Tynagh

Paul Keating, the former prime minister of Australia, visited Tynagh in 1992 while tracing his ancestry, and found that he was related to a Paul Molloy and Thomas Donnellan from Tynagh.


Australian Labor Party leadership spill, June 1991

It was the first of two ballots that year with Prime Minister Bob Hawke surviving the ballot against Treasurer Paul Keating, who then went to the backbench.

Centenary House

The Federal Opposition (the Liberal-National Coalition at that time) demanded an enquiry to what they saw as a "rort" and the Keating ALP Government set up a Royal Commission.

College of Advanced Education

This sector ceased to exist when, between 1989 and 1992, the Hawke-Keating government implemented the sweeping reforms of Education Minister John Dawkins.

Fremantle by-election, 1994

John Dawkins had held Fremantle for the Labor Party since 1977, and he had been a minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, and had been Treasurer since December 1991.

Ralph Willis

Ralph Willis AO (born 14 April 1938), Australian politician, was Treasurer for the final years of the Keating Labor Government.

In January 1983, however, he was dropped from the position as shadow Treasurer by Labor leader Bill Hayden, who decided that Paul Keating would be likely to put increased pressure on the government in the area of economic policy.

The Bolt Report

The inaugural award went to former Prime Minister, Paul Keating for his description of supporters of Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore as "sandal-wearing, muesli-chewing, bike-riding pedestrians".

The Latham Diaries

In it Latham frequently refers to his belief that in the 10 years between the ALP losing office in 1996 and publication of the Diaries, Labor failed to respond to major changes in Australian society, wrought by globalisation and the policies of the Keating and Howard governments.

Wayne Swan

On 21 September 2011, Swan was named the World's Best Finance Minister by Euromoney magazine, joining Paul Keating as the only Australian Treasurers to have been conferred the title.