Former prime minister Paul Keating has called the AUKUS nuclear submarines pact the ‘worst decision by a Labor government’ since WWI conscription.
Former prime minister Paul Keating has launched an extraordinary attack on the Albanese government over its adoption of the AUKUS pact, accusing it of making the worst foreign policy decision by a Labor government since the attempted introduction of conscription during World War One.
“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,” Keating said on Wednesday. “Penny Wong took a decision in 2016, five years before AUKUS, not to be at odds with the Coalition on foreign policy on any core issue. You cannot get into controversy as the foreign spokesperson for the Labor Party if you adopt the foreign policy of the Liberal Party, if you are on a unity ticket to deny the Liberals any wedge on foreign policy and defence.Keating revealed he had approached Albanese’s office for a meeting in February about the AUKUS pact but had not received a response.
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