Hawke was defeated as Labor leader in a 1991 spill against Paul Keating.

According to Geoffrey Keating, the main Beltane fire in medieval Ireland was on the hill of Uisneach, in what is now County Westmeath.

In the early 1990s, it was famously used by Prime Minister Paul Keating to describe members of the conservative Liberal Party of Australia opposition.

He was involved with a spat with Australian prime minister Paul Keating, who called him a " recalcitrant " after he refused to attend the APEC summit in Seattle.

Keating was first elected to the House of Representatives at the 1969 election as the Labor member for Blaxland in New South Wales.

He was one of four children of Matthew Keating, a boilermaker and trade-union representative of Irish Catholic descent, and his wife, Minnie.

Keating was educated at Catholic schools ; he was the first practising Catholic Labor prime minister since James Scullin left office in 1932.

Using his extensive contacts Keating gained Labor endorsement for the federal seat of Blaxland in the western suburbs of Sydney and was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1969 election when he was 25 years of age.

The formal announcement by Keating, as the faction leader, was actually penned by Gareth Evans.

Following the Labor Party's victory in the March 1983 election, Keating was appointed treasurer, a post he held until 1991.

Keating succeeded John Howard as treasurer and was able to use the size of the budget deficit to attack the former treasurer, and question the economic credibility of the Liberal-National coalition.

Keating was one of the driving forces behind the various microeconomic reforms of the Hawke government.

Keating was instrumental in the introduction of the Prices and Incomes Accord, an agreement between the Australian Council of Trade Unions ( ACTU ) and the government to negotiate wages.

His management of the Accord, and close working relationship with ACTU leader Bill Kelty, was a source of tremendous political power for Keating.

Keating was able to bypass cabinet in many instances, notably in the exercise of monetary policy.

Although Keating was able to win the support of a reluctant cabinet, in the face of opposition from the public, the welfare lobby, the ACTU, and the business community, Hawke intervened to drop the consumption tax.

Many of the remainder of the reforms were adopted in the September 1985 tax reform package, but the loss of the consumption tax was a bitter defeat for Keating.

In private, Keating had argued for rates to rise earlier than they did, and fall sooner, although his view was at odds with the Reserve Bank and his Treasury colleagues.

Publicly, Hawke and Keating had said there would be no recession-or there would be a " soft landing "-but this changed when Keating announced the country was indeed in recession-" this was the recession we had to have " he famously added.

* 1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his " dealings " with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

At 9: 45 am CST, Governor Frank Keating declared a state of emergency and ordered all non-essential workers in the Oklahoma City area to be released from their duties for their safety.

In 1991, Keating defeated Hawke for the Labor leadership in a partyroom ballot and became prime minister.

Three options-A, B and C-were presented in the Draft White Paper, with Keating and his Treasury colleagues fiercely advocating for Option C, which included a consumption tax of 15 % on goods and services along with reductions in personal and company income tax, a fringe benefits tax and a capital gains tax.

" During the subsequent Howard Government ( 1996 – 2007 ), Keating often criticised Howard for taking credit for the relatively good economic conditions Australia experienced over the latter half of Howard's time as prime minister, without acknowledging that the 1990s recession ended the inflation problem.

In June 1991, after Hawke had intimated to Keating that he planned to renege on the deal on the basis that Keating had been publicly disloyal and moreover was less popular than Hawke, Keating challenged him for the leadership.

Having lost the first challenge to Hawke, Keating realised that events would have to move very much in his favour for a second challenge to be even possible.

On 19 December 1991, Keating defeated Hawke in a party-room ballot for the leadership by 56 votes to 51, and become Prime Minister the following day.

Keating introduced mandatory detention for asylum seekers in 1992.

Later in 1995, Queensland Labor barely held onto its majority at the 1995 state election before losing it altogether in a 1996 by-election held a week after Keating called a federal election for March.

Later, defeated Queensland Premier Wayne Goss said that the people of his state had turned so violently on Keating that they were " sitting on their verandas with baseball bats " waiting for the writs to drop.

Their antagonism has crystallised, in part, around the authorship of the Redfern Speech, which Watson claimed for himself in Recollections of a Bleeding Heart and elsewhere, crediting Keating only with reading his text unchanged.

In 1975, Keating married Annita van Iersel, a Dutch flight attendant for Alitalia.

** Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

* January 30 – John Howard becomes leader of the Liberal Party of Australia to challenge Paul Keating for the 1996 Federal Election and the position of Prime Minister of Australia.

* April 14 – The U. S. government seizes the Irvine, CA Lincoln Savings and Loan Association ; Charles Keating ( for whom the Keating Five were named – John McCain among them ) eventually goes to jail, as part of the massive 1980s Savings and Loan Crisis which costs U. S. taxpayers nearly $ 200 billion in bailouts, and many people their life savings.

As from August 2010, his most recent book is The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia ( 2009 ) which deals with economic and political developments under Keating and Howard as Australia entered the globalised age.

Keating knows that his most successful projects were aided by Roark, so he asks for Roark's help in designing Cortlandt.

" After completing a trek of Kilimanjaro in 2009, Ronan Keating was asked by an interviewer which celebrity he would most like to throw off a mountain.

Keating also does commercial and voiceover work, perhaps most famously on an early 1990s Vidal Sassoon commercial, where his British pronunciation of " salon " brought him some notice as well as a spoof on Saturday Night Live.

The Right is most famous for its support of Third Way policies over Labor's traditional social democratic / democratic socialist policies, such as the economic rationalist policies of the Hawke and Keating governments, like floating the Australian Dollar in 1983, reductions in trade tariffs, taxation reforms, changing from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, the privatisation of Qantas and Commonwealth Bank, and deregulating the banking system.

But he had no experience in other areas of policy, his views on most issues were unknown, and he had little experience of political tactics, particularly against such hardened veterans as Hawke and Keating.

Keating has worked as a charity campaigner most notably for the Marie Keating Foundation, a foundation that raises awareness for breast cancer.

Keating and Paul Brady co-wrote the 2001 hit single " The Long Goodbye ", one of Keating's most loved hits amongst fans and a huge hit for Brooks & Dunn in the United States.

An academic lawyer and barrister by profession, he represented the Australian Labor Party in the Senate and House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999 serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996 as Attorney-General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and most prominently, from 1988 to 1996, as Foreign Minister.

Its most notable member has been Paul Keating, who was Prime Minister of Australia 1991-96.

Its most notable member has been Brian Howe, who was Deputy Prime Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments.

Its most prominent members have been Ralph Willis, a Cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, and Nicola Roxon, a Cabinet minister in the Rudd Government and the first and second Gillard Governments.

The related gravitational time dilation effect has been measured by transporting atomic clocks to altitudes of between tens and tens of thousands of kilometers ( first by Hafele and Keating in 1971 ; most accurately to date by Gravity Probe A launched in 1976 ).

Henry Reymond Fitzwalter " Harry " Keating ( 31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011 ) was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID.

Frederick Forsyth, Keating Rawson, Cornelius Lansing, Asa Burt and William Guest owned the most important of these.