这是在当财政部长的时候获得过世界银行评选的世界最佳财政的人，后来当选共党领袖，后成为澳洲第24任总理。
1994年，澳洲教育全面改革是在他的推动下进行的，自由党霍华德上任后推翻了所有的共党策略，唯一保留了共党的教育改革继续前行，才了有今天澳洲大学教育能够向北美，欧洲输送高尖端人才。
2月3 日晚，基廷接受ABC电视台专访核心内容如下：
Surplus countries key to economic revamp: Keating
Posted Tue Feb 3, 2009 1:00am AEDT
Updated Tue Feb 3, 2009 1:31am AEDT
Paul Keating says institutions such as the IMF and G7 need to be ditched. (Lateline)
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Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating says the current economic situation calls for an overhaul of the international institutions that lead economic policy.
Mr Keating told ABC 1's Lateline program that governments should move on from inter-government institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and G7 to combat the global financial crisis.
He says China and India deserve more of a say.
"What we need is a completely new global political and economic settlement," he said.
"Get rid of the old G7. We've got to get rid of the old IMF. We've got to bring the surplus countries into the political framework.
"The G7 is made up of debtor countries, countries like the United States, Britain, France, Italy - these are all borrowers.
""There's no surplus countries in that. If you look at the structure of the IMF the Chinese get 3.7 per cent of the vote, the Indians get 1.9."
"The Europeans and the Americans get 51 per cent and there is just now way the Chinese communist party is going to hand over control of their currency and their political fortunes to a Washington-based, US Treasury run institution."
"So unless there is going to be a totally new settlement... we are not going to get out of this."
Mr Keating says he expects the effects of the economic slowdown will be felt for a long time.
"The United States is also going to go through a very long and deep recession and a massive period of adjustment and I'll be very surprised if this is any less than six or seven years," he said.