Having been elected to parliament at just 25, former prime minister Paul Keating spent much of his working life in politics. Though, not all of it.
In 1967, a mere two years before winning the federal seat of Blaxland, he had a job as a shop assistant at the Bankstown David Jones in Sydney. An “apparently surly 22-year-old”, he was “dismissed” for being deemed “unsatisfactory”, according to the retailer’s official history published in 2013.
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