Former prime minister Paul Keating has launched a stinging assault on the Albanese authorities, labelling the AUKUS submarine deal because the “worst international decision” by Labor since World War One.
Ahead of a speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday, Mr Keating stated the transfer eclipsed that of former Labor chief Billy Hughes sought to introduce conscription through the nice warfare.
“Every Labor Party branch member will wince when they realise that the party we all fight for is returning to our former colonial master, Britain, to find our security in Asia — 236 years after Europeans first grabbed the continent from its Indigenous people,” he stated.
“We have been here before: Australia’s international interests subsumed by those of our allies. Defence policy substituting for foreign policy. But this time it is a Labor government lining us up.
“Anthony Albanese’s government has picked up and has taken ownership of the strategic architecture of the Morrison government – but taken it up in full and with unprecedented gusto.”
More to return.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
