Early life
Paul John Keating was born in Paddington, Sydney, on 18 January 1944. He was the eldest of four children and son of Minnie and Matt Keating. His father was a boilermaker and union official, and the family lived in the industrial suburb of Bankstown in Sydney’s southwest. Keating had three years of high school at Bankstown’s De La Salle College. On 16 January, 1959, he took a job as a pay clerk at Sydney’s electricity authority and joined the Labor Party the same year. Keating went to evening classes for two years at Belmore Technical College to finish high school, but did not make it to the final exams.
family life
Parents: Minnie and Matt Keating.
Siblings: Keating had four siblings, one named Anne Keating.
Wife: Paul married Annita van Iersel in 1975. But at one point in their marraige, at a dinner party, Keating ended the marraige once and for all.
Children: Paul Keating had four children with Annita van Iersel named Patrick, Caroline, Katherine and Alexandra.