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Paul John Keating is an Australian former politician who served as the 24th Prime Minister of Australia from December 1991 to March 1996.
Born on 18 January 1944 at St Margaret’s Hospital in Darlinghurst, Sydney, he grew up in the working-class suburb of Bankstown in a modest family home.
The eldest child of Matthew John “Matt” Keating, a boilermaker and trade unionist of Irish descent who worked for the New South Wales Government Railways, and Minnie Therese “Min” Chapman, he was raised in a strongly Catholic, Labor-oriented household.