Paul Keating was Australia's Treasurer (1983-91) and Prime Minister
(1991-96). He championed a clutch of seminal changes to the
country, including the reorientation of Australia's strategic and
trade relationships with Asia, promoting Australia's shift to a
republic and the development of a major legal structure to return
lands to Australia's indigenous people. His domestic economic
reforms included the dismantling of a centralised wage fixing
system in favour of an enterprise bargaining model, floating the
Australian dollar, establishing universal superannuation and
setting up a competition policy to lower prices, with the aim of
lifting disposable incomes. His reforms underpinned twenty years of
low inflationary economic growth.
Paul Keating maintains his interest in politics, economics and
foreign policy and contributes occasionally to the public debate.
He is committed to aesthetic interests in architecture, the
decorative arts and the romantic repertoire in classical music.
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