Former prime minister Paul Keating has unleashed on Labor and the AUKUS deal, describing his former party as “suckers” and “deeply pathetic”. Read more about his Press Club Address here:
The move has been criticised by the Chinese government as accelerating an arms race in the Indo-Pacific
"There's three leaders standing there. Only one is paying: our bloke! Albo. The other two, they've got the band playing, happy days are here again! The American president can hardly keep three coherent sentences together," Mr Keating said. “The idea that we need American submarines to protect us … Three are going to protect us from the might of China. Really? I mean, the rubbish of it.”
“They would have preferred [China] remains in poverty, with 20 per cent of humanity, forever. But the fact that China is now an industrial economy, they say: That’s not in the playbook, what an affront. This is what this is about,” he said.
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