PAUL KEATING

PAUL KEATING

• Australia's 24th Prime Minister
• Took over Labour Government in 1991
• "Reconciled with its past, confident about its future and engaged with its region"
• - David Day

PAUL KEATING

• Won the seat for Blaxland on 25th October, 1969
• In 1975, became the youngest Federal Minister
• March, 1983, became treasurer which was a position he held for 8 1/2 years
• December, 1991, became Prime Minister
• Resigned from politics in March, 1996

PAUL KEATING
📰During his time as treasurer, one major issue Paul faced was the expansion of Australian trade and relationships in the Asia-Pacific
📰Deregulation of the Australian economy made this possible.

PAUL KEATING

• His long term monetary strategies strengthened Australia global place
• Examples of this include:
• Allowing foreign baks to operate im Australia
• Floating the Australian dollar
• And allowing Australian companies to compete internationally

PAUL KEATING

• Taking advantage of Australias position, helped keating plan for Australias trading future
• This included: lowering world tariffs and opening up markets to Asia
• He promoted APEC and furthered Australias relationships with its neighbors
• Support from national leaders was strengthening, but the Australian public was apprehensive
• Keating enabled a globalised and economically advanced Australia ready for the 21st century

PAUL KEATING - PERSONAL CONTEXT

• Keating had a unique leadership style which stemmed from his upbringing
• Grew up in Bankstown, dropped out of school at 14
• From a working class family
• He was able to relate to the average, everyday person
• Able to address the wants and needs of the majority of the public

PAUL KEATING - PERSONAL CONTEXT

• Strong pro-republic sentiment
• Australia had become more independent from Europe, able to make more decisions
• Influenced by personal values:
• Wanted Australia to independently forge it identity and become more competitive
• Influenced by a peak in worldwide pro-independence politics

PAUL KEATING - POLITICAL CONTEXT

• Most important political action regarded Aboriginal Rights
• Influenced by a growing realisation of Aboriginals rights in Australia
• Influenced by world pro-equality sentiment
• Influenced by South African repeal of apartheid laws

PAUL KEATING - SOCIAL CONTEXT

• Saw Asia-Pacific relationships as important
• Was a key figure in the establishment of APEC
• Influenced by the global trend of building links with neighbours
• Also by Australias growing independence Europe
• Floating thr dollar made Australia an appealing country to make links with

PAUL KEATING - ECONOMIC CONTEXT

• Paul keating made many economic changes including:
• Introducing the national superannuation scheme
• And implemented to address the problem of low national savings
• This was a response to the recession of the 90s and the publics awareness

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