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Fast facts: Paul Keating
Personal profile
Paul John KEATING
Born:
18 January 1944, Paddington, Sydney
Education:
De La Salle College Bankstown (1955–58); Belmore Technical College (1959–61)
Employment:
pay clerk; union advocate
Memberships:
Catholic Youth Organisation; Collingwood Football Club
Marriage:
17 January 1975, Oisterwijk, Holland
Children:
Patrick (1977); Caroline (1979); Katherine (1982); Alexandra (1985)
Anna Johanna Maria (Annita) KEATING (née Van IERSEL)
Born:
5 October 1948, Holland
Political profile
Terms as PM:
20 December 1991 – 11 March 1996
Terms as MP:
House of Representatives: 25 November 1969 – 23 April 1996 (Blaxland)
Portfolios:
Northern Australia: 21 October – 11 November 1975
Treasurer: 11 March 1983 – 3 June 1991
Political memberships:
Labor Youth Council; Australian Labor Party: 1958 – (New South Wales president, 20 September 1979 – 1983)
Quiz facts
- only 25 when he won the seat of Blaxland, he was one of Australia’s youngest federal parliamentarians
- also among the youngest federal ministers, he was aged 31 when he took his first portfolio in 1975
- Treasurer for 8 years, second longest-serving federal Treasurer (Arthur Fadden served 10 years, 1940–41 and 1949–58)
- like John Howard, he was 22 years in parliament when he became Prime Minister
- campaigned only twice as Labor Party leader, winning in 1993 and losing in 1996