Home fires burning: budget turmoil mars prime minister's overseas trip

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Budgetary disputes and other problems continued to bedevil Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating as he left for a visit to Britain and other countries in Sep 1993. Keating's difficulties include gaining minority party support for his budget in the Senate; unexpectedly strong opposition to his proposals for new taxes; and widespread unease about his policies concerning aboriginal land rights, industrial relations and plans to make Australia a republic. Keating will probably compromise on the budget to avoid an election that his Labor party would probably lose.

Budget, Budgeting, Budgets, Government spending policy

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Off with our head: Keating plays politics with the queen

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Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's June 7, 1995 announcement of a plan for a 1999 referendum on making the country a republic leaves the electorate divided but suspicious. Most Australians favor a republic, but nearly all want to elect a president directly, rather than through Parliament. Some suspect Keating is distracting them from harder questions, and that he wants to be the head of such a state. Proposed presidential powers remain ill-defined. The opposition has not yet exploited these weaknesses.

Republics

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Out in the open: Keating opts for snap election

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Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating announced a snap federal election campaign for Mar 13, 1993 shortly after the Western Australian Labor party suffered an expected lossin state elections. Keating has drummed up his economic plans for the campaign.He has suggested that Australia initiate an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group with harmonized trading laws and practices that would negotiate with other countries in behalf of the region.

Planning, Elections, International economic integration, Economic integration

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