[1] He first stood for parliament in the seat of Moreton at the 1966 election, losing to the incumbent Liberal MP Jim Killen.

[2] Keogh won the seat of Bowman for the ALP at the 1969 election, defeating the incumbent Liberal MP Wylie Gibbs.

He served on the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council and on various parliamentary committees during the Whitlam government, before losing his seat in Labor's landslide defeat at the 1975 election.

[7] In April 1987, Sciacca resigned his candidacy as part of a further factional deal, with a new preselection ballot being ordered.

[8] However, the new deal collapsed and the preselection ballot was cancelled, with Sciacca being chosen as the candidate for Bowman directly by the ALP national executive.