Ending workplace discrimination against pregnancy
The Keating cabinet used the 10th anniversary of the Sex Discrimination Act to stop employers using pregnancy as a means of discriminating against women workers.
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Damien Murphy
Damien Murphy is a senior writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Refugee status reforms
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs won cabinet support for stopping repeat applications for refugee status.
Kim Beazley: Kevin Rudd's 24-hour media obsession
Paul Keating was a dominant media performer but how would he have gone in today's frenetic 24-hour news cycle?
Native title: How the West lost its land act
For nearly two decades the pastoral and mining industries had fought a long bitter fight against Aboriginal land rights but by the 1990s implementation of the Native Title Act 1993Â was one of the Keating government's big endeavours.
How to make a mint from the mint
The Keating government's quest for a lean, practical program of savings and revenue generation meant that long-debated privatisations went ahead.
Going for gold pitched to the federal government
Cabinet endorsed prime minister Paul Keating's intention to decline a request from NSW premier John Fahey for an extra $500 million to help develop the site and services for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, arguing that support offered to the Olympics must be "tightly targeted" for optimal effect in boosting Australia's standing.
The real reason for security deal with Indonesia
The agreement between Australia and Indonesia was seen by some as a crowning achievement of Paul Keating's late prime ministership. But it was also about John Howard, in a way.
'We didn't know exactly what we needed to do': The climate change battle in 1994
The Keating government wrestled with the politics and policies of climate change, not least in terms of how Australia might retain its leverage in international forums where its reputation was slipping through 1994.
How not to protect nature
The protests gained so much national attention that the Daintree area became a huge tourist attraction overnight.
Past offences
Mutiny, treachery and treason were still offences in Australia in 1995.
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