The Honourable Paul Keating served as Australia’s 24th Prime Minister, from 1991 to 1996, having been Treasurer between 1983 and 1991.

His political legacy includes fundamental social and economic reform that laid the basis for Australia’s last quarter century economic performance and included the deregulation of the financial, product and labour markets.  Paul Keating established compulsory superannuation – now with more than $2.1 trillion under management.  He worked towards an inclusive social policy, for Australia to become a Republic and established the Native Title legislation.  In foreign policy, he established the APEC Leaders’ Meeting and worked to forge Australia’s place in the region, especially with Indonesia.

His book, Engagement: Australia faces the Asia Pacific (2000) was translated into Chinese and Japanese.  In October 2011, his book of post Prime-Ministerial speeches, After Words, was published and Keating, the book based on the 2013 four-part ABC interview series with Kerry O’Brien, was published in 2015.  Troy Bramston’s Paul Keating: The Big Picture Leader was published in 2016.

Since leaving politics in 1996, Paul Keating has continued his interest in geo-political and foreign policy and urban design.  He is Chair of the International Advisory Council of China Development Bank, China’s sole policy bank and is the progenitor of the Barangaroo project in Sydney, including and especially, its Headland Park.