“trying to find our security from Asia rather than in Asia”
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Paul Keating
Paul John Keating is an Australian former politician and trade unionist who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia and leader of the Labor Party from 1991 to 1996. He previously served as treasurer from 1983 to 1991 and as deputy prime minister from 1990 to 1991 under the prime ministership of Bob Hawke.
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To move around in row boats? Canoes, maybe? You know, so they develop their own submarines, their own frigates, their own aircraft carriers. They are the other major state in the world. What the Americans say – ‘No, no. Keep your place. Go back to your canoes.’
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“To move around in row boats? Canoes, maybe? You know, so they develop their own submarines, their own frigates, their own aircraft carriers. They are the other major state in the world. What the Americans say – ‘No, no. Keep your place. Go back to your canoes.’”
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“What do they expect [the Chinese] to do?”
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“So Aukus is really about, in American terms, the military control of Australia. I mean, what’s happened … is likely to turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States.”
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“It’s what other people call incompetence.”
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“no commercial interests in China whatsoever”
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“not going to attack us and have never threatened to attack us”
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“Not simply irrational, demented.”
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“like an old theme park sliding into the Atlantic compared to modern China”
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“kidding the rest of us that their ‘cooperation’ added up to some viable policy”
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“Britain suffers delusions of grandeur and relevance deprivation.”
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“does not add up to a row of beans when it comes to East Asia”
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“should not be drawn into a military engagement over Taiwan, US sponsored or otherwise”
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“Eight submarines against China when we get the submarines in 20 years’ time – it’ll be like throwing a handful of toothpicks at the mountain,”
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“When the government changes, the country changes ... but what we”
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AFR: Behind Paul Keating’s grand vision for Australia
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The Guardian: The Labor right is back in power in Victoria. Where will its new ‘Kmart Keating’ premier take the state?
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The Guardian: Afternoon Update: Keating urges Labor to stand firm on CGT; inflation eases to 4.2%; and a dog shoots a woman
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The Guardian: Paul Keating urges Labor to stick with capital gains tax overhaul and avoid exemptions that would hurt economy
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The Diplomat: What’s Paul Keating’s Problem With Taiwan?
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The Conversation: Paul Keating takes on Nancy Pelosi, after she accused him of ‘ridiculous’ comment about Taiwan
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Keating criticized AUKUS, claimed Taiwan is "Chinese real estate", and that Taiwan is comparable to Tasmania
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2023· 1 entry
Keating went on to call the AUKUS pact "the worst deal in all history" and lambasting the Labor government for being "incompetent" and stating that the decision was the worst by a Labor government since Billy Hughes atte
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2019· 2 entries
And 2026, she attracted press attention over her friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell, former partner of American financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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During campaigning for that year's federal election, Keating spoke out against the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation by calling them "nutters"
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Troy Bramston, a journalist for The Australian and a political historian, wrote an unauthorised biography that Keating cooperated with titled Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader
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2014· 1 entry
“Brien was perceived as the closest he would come to producing an autobiography. In 2016, Troy Bramston, a journalist for The Australian and a political historian, wrote an unauthorised biography that Keating cooperated with titled Paul Keating: The Big-Picture Leader. Bramston was given full access to Keating”
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2013· 1 entry
Keating took part in a series of four-hour-long interviews with Kerry O'Brien which were broadcast on the ABC in November of that year
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2002· 1 entry
Keating's former speechwriter and adviser, Don Watson, published Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM
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2000· 1 entry
Keating published his first book since leaving office, Engagement: Australia Faces the Asia-Pacific, which focused on foreign policy during his time as prime minister
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1997· 1 entry
Keating declined appointment in the Australia Day Honours as a Companion of the Order of Australia, an honour which has been offered to all former prime ministers since the modern Australian Honours System was introduced
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1996· 1 entry
Keating moved to the affluent eastern Sydney suburb of Woollahra
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1993· 4 entries
Of recently elected US President Bill Clinton and Chinese Premier Li Peng to expand APEC to a full Leaders' Meeting
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“APEC is bigger than all of us – Australia, the U.S. and Malaysia, and Dr. Mahathir and any other recalcitrants.”
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And 1995, although these would later be deferred to 1995 and 1998, a move which cost the Government considerable political support among the public
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Which "provide(d) a national system for the recognition and protection of native title and for its co-existence with the national land management system"
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1992· 1 entry
The compulsory employer contribution scheme became a part of a wider reform package addressing this retirement income dilemma
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1991· 1 entry
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Australia (1991–1996).
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1990· 3 entries
Several months after the Hawke government had won an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in office
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But in June 1991 he resigned from the ministry to unsuccessfully challenge Hawke for the leadership, believing he had reneged on the Kirribilli Agreement
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Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (1990–1991).
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1986· 1 entry
“If this government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will just end up being a third-rate economy, a banana republic.”
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1985· 1 entry
Became a passionate advocate within the Cabinet for the introduction of a broad-based consumption tax, similar in nature to the goods and services tax that was later introduced by the Howard government, as a means of
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1984· 2 entries
Was awarded the Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year, an award which became colloquially known in Australia as the "World's Greatest Treasurer", becoming the first Australian treasurer to be presented with the award
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“Even as it walked out on you and joined the Common Market, you were still looking for your MBEs and your knighthoods, and all the rest of the regalia that comes with it. You would take Australia right back down the time tunnel to the cultural cringe where you have always come from.”
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1983· 2 entries
Career landmark: Treasurer of Australia (1983–1991).
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The two formed a personal as well as political relationship which enabled the Government to pursue a significant number of reforms, although there were occasional points of tension between the two
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1981· 1 entry
Was elected president of the New South Wales Labor Party, thus becoming the leader of the influential Labor Right faction
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1975· 3 entries
Career landmark: Minister for Home Affairs (1975–1975).
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Until 1983, when the Keatings sold the property for $123,000 and moved to a one-storey rental house in the Canberra suburb of Red Hill, to be closer to work
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On 17 January 1975, Keating married Annita van Iersel, a Dutch-born flight attendant for Alitalia.
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1972· 1 entry
Keating announced his engagement to fashion consultant Kristine Kennedy, but they did not marry
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1971· 1 entry
Succeeded in having Lang re-admitted to the Labor Party
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1969· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Australian House of Representatives (1969–1996).
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1966· 1 entry
Became president of New South Wales Young Labor
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-01-18.
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