On December 10, 1992. The Hon. Paul Keating Prime Minister of Australia gave the following address to launch the International Year of the World's Indigenous People. This speech was recently voted as the most important speech ever given in Australia.
Paul Keating delivers the budget that brings home the bacon. This was Australia's biggest ever budget surplus, as it still is to this day relative to GDP.
Treasurer Paul Keating makes his first major economic decision and floats the Australian Dollar in December 1983.
The Secretary of the Treasury was firmly against this bold decision.
Treasurer John Howard went to the 1983 election claiming a budget deficit of $4.3 billion, and later admitted to it being $6 billion when it was in-fact $9.6 billion.