Publisher: Canberra: C.J. Thompson, Commonwealth Government Printer.
Format: Softcover staple-bound booklet in white card wrappers, annotated and signed in ink by Paul Keating on cover, 27pp, 24.9 x 17.5cm.
Annotation reads “To Keith, with best wishes, Paul Keating.”
Text on title page continues “Delivered on 19 August 1986 by the Honourable P.J. Keating, M.P. Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia.”
Paul John Keating (b.1944), Australian former politician and trade unionist who served as treasurer from 1983 to 1991 and as deputy prime minister from 1990 to 1991 under the prime ministership of Bob Hawke. He became the 24th prime minister of Australia and leader of the Labor Party in 1991 and served until 1996.
Keating autographs signed at the time of the event are scarce.
Foxing, creases to covers.
