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1991, Bob Hawke the Australian Prime Minister for nine years resigned as his challenger Hon. Paul Keating won the Labor Party spill. As Paul Keating entered the Prime Minister-ship High Unemployment and a Stagnant economy we're fresh on the minds of Australians though he was blamed for the Economic woes his Opponent the Fiscally Conservative John Hewson demanded a early election to renew Labor's mandate as the ruling Party. Paul Keating sarcastically replied "I want to do you slowly" and left the Election until 1993, while he was re-organizing the Dismayed Labor Party the Australian Economy took a Sharp downturn resulting in one Million Unemployed the Liberal Leader denounced this as "A million reasons to get rid of Keating". Though Labor won the 1993 Election it did so by a small margin, hoping to force Hewson out the Liberal Party kept him on as leaderstill viewed as Extremely Right-Wing the Liberal Party failed to gain any traction in the polls and went into 1996 on the back foot.
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