Editing Paul Keating (section)

===Indigenous land rights and domestic policy===
[[File:Prime Minister Paul Keating visits Indonesia ABC 1992.webm|thumb|[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] footage of Keating visiting [[Indonesia]] in 1992 and meeting with Indonesian president [[Suharto]]]]
Shortly after Keating became prime minister, the [[High Court of Australia]] handed down a judgement in [[Mabo v Queensland (No 2)|Mabo v Queensland]], a long-running case on [[Indigenous land rights in Australia|Indigenous land rights]]; the judgement would come to be known as ''Mabo'', and declared that a right to [[Native title in Australia|native title]] did exist in Australia, overturning [[terra nullius]], but not clarifying exactly who had the right to access the title.<ref name="Mabo #2 HCA">{{cite AustLII|HCA|23|1992|litigants=Mabo v Queensland (No 2) |parallelcite=(1992) 175 [[Commonwealth Law Reports|CLR]] 1 |date=3 June 1992 |courtname=[[High Court of Australia|High Court]]}}.</ref> Keating led the Government's response to the ruling, beginning a high-profile public campaign on raising awareness of the issue, and advocating repeatedly in favour of the judgment and for an expansion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights. On 10 December 1992, he delivered a major address which came to be known as the [[Redfern Park Speech]] on [[Aboriginal reconciliation]]. The speech, in which he explicitly noted the responsibility of settler Australians for destroying much of Indigenous society, has since regularly been cited as among the greatest in Australian political history.<ref>{{cite web |author=Phillip Adams |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20876,21673159-12272,00.html |title=The greatest speech |work=[[The Australian]]|date=5 May 2007 |access-date=25 April 2010 |archive-date=21 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221143930/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20876,21673159-12272,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/Barani/news/KeatingsRedfernAddressanunforgettablespeech.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070903172050/http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani/news/KeatingsRedfernAddressanunforgettablespeech.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 September 2007 |title=Keating's Redfern Address voted an unforgettable speech |publisher=Cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au |access-date=25 April 2010 }}</ref>

This work culminated in the passage of the [[Native Title Act 1993|Native Title Act]] in 1993, which "provide(d) a national system for the recognition and protection of [[Native title in Australia|native title]] and for its co-existence with the national land management system".<ref name="Mabo #2 HCA"/> As well as creating the legal field of native title, the act established an [[Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner]], who was required to prepare an annual report to the [[Attorney-General for Australia|attorney-general]] on the operation of the Native Title Act and its effect on the exercise and enjoyment of human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and to report, when requested by the attorney-general, on any other matter relating to the rights of Indigenous people under the act.<ref>{{cite web | title=Native Title | website=Australian Human Rights Commission | date=27 November 2015 | url=https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-social-justice/projects/native-title | access-date=4 August 2020 | archive-date=15 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815045235/https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-social-justice/projects/native-title | url-status=live }} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Text was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Attribution 4.0 International  (CC BY 4.0)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016190421/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |date=16 October 2020 }} licence. (Statement [https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/commission-general/copyright here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920115655/https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/commission-general/copyright |date=20 September 2020 }}.)</ref>

[[File:Paul Keating delivering the Redfern Speech at Redfern Park, 1992.tif|thumb|left|Keating delivering the [[Redfern Park Speech]] on 10 December 1992]]
Elsewhere in domestic policy, Keating established and promoted the first Commonwealth cultural policy, known as 'Creative Nation'.<ref name="creative nation">{{cite web |url=https://theconversation.com/paul-keatings-creative-nation-a-policy-document-that-changed-us-33537 |website=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]] |title=Paul Keating's Creative Nation: a policy document that changed us |date=30 October 2014 |access-date=23 September 2020 |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001225049/https://theconversation.com/paul-keatings-creative-nation-a-policy-document-that-changed-us-33537 |url-status=live }}</ref> The policy allocated AU$250 million over four years to promote the cultural and creative arts sectors in Australia. He had frequently espoused the benefits of the arts in public, and used the policy as an opportunity to develop the Australian cultural sector.<ref name="creative nation"/> During the Keating government, [[Mandatory detention in Australia|mandatory detention for asylum seekers]] was also introduced for the first time.<ref>[http://www.ajustaustralia.com/informationandresources_researchandpapers.php?act=papers&id=101 Detention timeline] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113231604/http://www.ajustaustralia.com/informationandresources_researchandpapers.php?act=papers&id=101 |date=13 November 2011 }}, [[Special Broadcasting Service]], 17 June 2008</ref>