Keating brings home the bacon (tax-free) Was Achilles a Heel?
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Keating brings home the bacon (tax-free)
Was Achilles a heel?

9 July 1998
Was the sale of former Prime Minister Keating's share in a piggery to his partner, Achilles Constantinidis, who then on-sold it to Indonesian interests at the same time as Prime Minister Keating was negotiating a treaty with Indonesian dictator and embezzler, President Suharto, a sham to avoid taxation?

Or was the former Federal Treasurer financially incompetent in selling his share at what he termed a "third rate price" to his partner who immediately made a handsome profit by on-selling it?

It seems as if one or the other scenarios has to be true.

Federal coalition members tabled a document in parliament this week alleging the former scenario. The document referred to "H.E.", purportedly meaning "His Excellency", the Indonesian term for Prime Minister Keating. The document makes incredibly damaging allegations of tax avoidance on the part of "H.E."

Keating's Piggery deal
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The Keating piggery deal

This document purportedly relates to the sale of Keating's shares in his piggery business to Indonesian businessman, William Soeryadjaya. Chris Coudonaris is Keating's solicitor. The document has been re-typed for clarity purposes. The original document follows the re-typed one. "HE" purportedly refers to "His Excellency, Prime Minister Keating".

William Soeryadjaya
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William Soeryadjaya (December 22, 1922 - April 2, 2010), born in Majalengka, was an Indonesian businessman who co-founded Astra International, Indonesia's largest automobile retailer.[1]

Soeryadjaya co-founded founded Astra, then a trading company, in 1957.[1] The company grew to become Indonesia's largest automobile retailers and the country's biggest company by market value.[1] The company, which also owns finance, palm oil and automotive businesses, sells Honda motorcycles and Toyota vehicles throughout Indonesia.[1] In Marhc 2010, Astra overtook Telkom Indonesia to become Indonesia's most valuable company.[1]

In 2009, Forbes Magazine rated the Soeryadjaya family as Indonesia's 18th wealthiest family.[1]

William Soeryadjaya died at Medistra Hospital in Jakarta at 22:43 p.m. on April 2, 2010, at the age of 87.[1] Astra's president director, Michael Ruslim also died on January 20, 2010, from dengue fever.[1]

Joe Biden's meetings with foreign leaders
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Australia
Prime Minister John Howard (March 1996 - December 2007)
Prime Minister Paul Keating (December 1991 - March 1996)

Australias privatized retirement system
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Australia's Privatized Retirement System: Lessons for the United StatesP ublished on December 8, 1997 by Daniel Mitchell, Ph.D. and Robert O'Quinn Backgrounder #1149
Like the United States, Australia has been confronted by a dual crisis in its government-run old-age pension system. Benefits payments to an aging population threatened to consume ever larger amounts of Australia's budget according to projections in the 1980s, yet the Australian Social Security system clearly was unable to provide an adequate income for retirees.

Paul Keating
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Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is a former Australian politician, and was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1991 to 1996