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Ideologies / Third-Way Labourite / Paul Keating
Paul Keating — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1944 · Australia · Prime Minister & Treasurer

Paul Keating

The market reformer of Labor

Deregulation with a social conscience.

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The Australian Labor treasurer and PM who deregulated the economy while pursuing Indigenous land rights and a republic — an early, distinctive Third Way synthesis.

social

Progressive on Indigenous reconciliation and the republic.

economic

Floated the dollar and deregulated — market reform from the centre-left.

governance

Modernising Labor government within institutions.

Notable for
  • Floated the Australian dollar
  • Native Title and the Redfern Speech
  • Compulsory superannuation
deregulationreconciliationmodernisation
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