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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.
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.
Keating was a backbencher for most of the period of the Whitlam Government ( December 1972 – November 1975 ).
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.

Keating and educated
Keating was educated at Sandford Park School, and then at University College Dublin ( UCD ) and the University of London.

Keating and at
Live music is popularly played on streets and at venues throughout Dublin in general, and the city has produced several musicians and groups of international success, including U2, one member of Westlife, The Dubliners, The Thrills, Horslips, Jedward, The Boomtown Rats, Boyzone, Ronan Keating, Thin Lizzy, Paddy Casey, Sinéad O ' Connor, The Script and My Bloody Valentine.
Vice President Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dignitaries attended the service and gave speeches in which they emphasized that " goodness overcame evil ".
Leaving De La Salle College Bankstown ( now LaSalle Catholic College ) at 15, Keating decided not to pursue higher education, and worked as a clerk at the Electricity Commission of New South Wales and then as a trade union research assistant.
Keating at age 35, second from left, with other ALP figures ( from left ) Colin Jamieson, Peter Walsh ( Australian politician ) | Peter Walsh and David Combe
At a 1988 meeting at Kirribilli House, Hawke and Keating discussed the handover of the leadership to Keating.
The Deputy Prime Minister, Lionel Bowen, retired at the 1990 election, and Keating was appointed Deputy to Hawke.
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.
At the 1996 election, the Keating Government was swept from power in a landslide, losing 29 seats and suffering a five percent two party preferred swing -- in terms of seats lost, the second-worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level in Australia.
Keating described Howard as a " desiccated coconut " who was " Araldited to the seat " and that " Howard ... is an old antediluvian 19th century person who wanted to stomp forever ... on ordinary people's rights to organise themselves at work ... he's a pre-Copernican obscurantist ", when criticising the Howard government's WorkChoices policy.
On Labor's victory at the 2007 election, Keating said that he was relieved, rather than happy, that the Howard government had been removed.
Keating is currently a Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the University of New South Wales.
* The prediction that time runs slower at lower potentials has been confirmed by the Pound – Rebka experiment, the Hafele – Keating experiment, and the GPS.
However, Keating was voted out of office at the Australian federal election, 1996.
Keating says Tipraite sent fifty warriors dressed as women from Emain Macha to kill him at Tara.
* Samuel Pickering, Professor at the University of Connecticut, inspiration for the character Mr. Keating in the Academy Award – winning film The Dead Poets Society
On 25 October 2008, to mark the 30th anniversary of the song " Saturday Night Fever " topping the UK charts, Gibb performed with special guests including Ronan Keating, Stephen Gateley, Sam Sparro, Sharleen Spiteri, Gabriella Climi and Bryn Christopher at the London music festival BBC Electric Proms.
Peter Keating, a popular but vacuous fellow student, has graduated with high honors ; he too moves to New York, where he takes a job at the prestigious architectural firm of Francon & Heyer and quickly ingratiates himself with senior partner Guy Francon.
After Cameron retires from practice, Keating hires Roark to work at his firm, but he is quickly fired for insubordination by Guy Francon.
Aiming at a society that shall be " an average drawn upon zeroes ," he knows exactly why he corrupts Peter Keating, and explains his methods to the ruined young man in a passage that is a pyrotechnical display of the fascist mind at its best and its worst ; the use of the ideal of altruism to destroy personal integrity, the use of humor and tolerance to destroy all standards, the use of sacrifice to enslave.

Keating and Catholic
Penetanguishene has four different school boards within its limits — the publicly founded English board ( Simcoe County District School Board ), which runs the Penetanguishene Secondary School and James Keating Elementary School ; the Public French School Board, the CSDCSO and the English Catholic School Board.
He argues she was a tool by which the Catholic Church furthered its political and theological aims, and the cult of personality that she developed was used by politicians, dictators and bankers to gain credibility and assuage guilt, citing Hillary Rodham Clinton, Charles Keating and Michèle Bennett as examples.
In recent times, Labor prime ministers Paul Keating ( 1991 – 1996 ) and Kevin Rudd ( 2007 – 2010 ) were both raised Catholic ( though Rudd now attends Anglican services ).
A practicing Roman Catholic, Keating attended Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, graduating in 1962.
Founded by Edward M. Keating as a Catholic literary quarterly, the magazine was closely associated with the New Left.
" In the inaugural issue of the magazine, publisher and then-editor Karl Keating stated the magazine's mission: " Our desire is to mirror the Rock which is Peter, which rests upon the Rock which is Christ, and to explain clearly and accurately the Catholic faith.
Seathrún Céitinn, known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th century Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian.
As summarized by Karl Keating, the Roman Catholic apologetic for the inspiration of scripture first considers the scriptures as a merely historical source, and then it attempts to derive the divinity of Jesus from the information contained therein, illuminated by the tradition of the Catholic Church and by what they consider to be common knowledge about human nature.
Karl Keating ( born 1950 ), a prominent Catholic apologist and author, is the founder and president of Catholic Answers, a lay apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization.
A 2004 complaint to the Internal Revenue Service by the pro-choice organization Catholics for a Free Choice led to an IRS investigation of Catholic Answers that Keating described as costly and onerous.
Marist Brothers was a boys school located on Keating Street, behind St. Joachim's Catholic Church.
A longstanding member of the Australian Labor Party, he went to the Marist Brothers school ( now closed, since turned into the Catholic Education Office ) located on Keating Street.

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