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How many ex-PMs does it take to sink Australia’s nuclear submarine deal?

Malcolm Turnbull was quick to share his concerns about the $368bn deal but the opposition to Aukus was led by that old Labor war horse: Paul Keating

The Guardian - AU

We shall fight them on our pages: Nine newspapers invoke Churchill to defend their Red Alert series

Newspapers’ leadership angrily rejects criticism of China series with insiders saying their efforts were similar to ‘Churchill taking on the Nazis’. Plus: the end of the shock jock?

The Guardian - AU

Nuclear waste divisions intensify between Labor premiers over AUKUS submarine deal

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas hits back at suggestions from his Labor counterparts in Victoria and WA that his state should take nuclear waste from the future AUKUS fleet.

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Australia to spend $1.3b on missiles in AUKUS deal

Australia will acquire hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles from the US as part of the AUKUS security pact.

The New Daily

Madonna King: Paul Keating’s AUKUS spray was of a bygone era

The brash leadership of Paul Keating might have been fit for purpose almost 30 years ago, but it certainly isn’t any more.

The New Daily

As Australia signs up for nuclear subs, NZ faces hard decisions over the AUKUS alliance

Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating’s recent strident criticism of the A$368 billion nuclear-powered submarine deal announced under the AUKUS security pact will have little effect on Australian policy. Canberra’s deepening level of security cooperation is underpinned by a deep political consensus.

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Grattan on Friday: History will judge Keating's assessments of AUKUS and China, but his performance went over the top

As the old adage goes, time will tell whether Paul Keating’s scepticism about AUKUS and his extremely benign view of China’s intentions turn out to be justified.

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Afternoon Update: Albanese fires back at Keating over Aukus criticism; global banking fears; and US threatens to ban TikTok

PM says Keating’s acerbic attack on the Aukus program ‘diminish him’ as Malcolm Turnbull joins chorus of criticism

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese rebukes Paul Keating for scathing remarks against 'seriously unwise ministers' Richard Marles and Penny Wong

The prime minister says Labor party elder Paul Keating's strident criticism of two cabinet ministers only serves to diminish the former leader, but did not call on him to apologise.

ABC News

Watch: Unemployment falls, Albanese responds, Gas shortfall

Watch: Australia's seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate has decreased to 3.5 per cent. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected Paul Keating's

The New Daily

‘Pretentious’, ‘hyperbolic’ and ‘irresponsible’: what was behind Nine newspapers’ Red Alert series?

Experts have questioned whether the Sydney Morning Herald and Age’s alarming series was inspired by an attempt to undermine the stabilisation of Australia’s relationship with China

The Guardian - AU

Paul Keating has ‘diminished’ himself with scathing attack on Aukus submarine deal, Albanese says

Malcolm Turnbull has also questioned deal amid UK economy’s ‘existential problems’

The Guardian - AU

China’s sound and fury over Aukus will mean little for ties with Australia

Beijing wants the relationship ‘back on the right track’ regardless of the trilateral pact

The Guardian - AU

AUKUS has a very high risk of failure: Turnbull

Another former prime minister has questioned the AUKUS security pact following Paul Keating's blistering attack against it and the Labor government.

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Myer to close flagship Brisbane store – as it happened

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AUKUS confidence remains despite Keating attack: Marles

Richard Marles maintains his confidence in the AUKUS security pact despite former Labor prime minister Paul Keating's blistering attack against it.

The New Daily

Showdown over subs triggers fight among Labor’s faithful

Paul Keating has delivered a full frontal attack on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and condemned the nuclear submarine.

The Guardian - AU

The ‘worst deal’ in history and an Albanese snub: Paul Keating’s most memorable calls at the press club

Former Labor prime minister attacks Aukus, the media, post-Brexit Britain and his own side of politics

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Paul Keating lashes Albanese government over AUKUS, calling it Labor's biggest failure since WW1

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has launched a swingeing attack on the Labor government over the AUKUS submarine agreement, accusing Anthony Albanese of relying on “two seriously unwise ministers, Penny Wong and Richard Marles”.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Keating calls Aukus submarines ‘worst deal in history’; power prices to surge; and ‘Violet’ Coco’s sentence quashed

Former Labor prime minister launched an extraordinary broadside against the Albanese government’s key Aukus policy

The Independent UK

Former Australian PM says subs 'worst deal in all history'

Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has launched a blistering attack on his nation’s plan to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the United States to modernize its fleet, saying “it must be the worst deal in all history.”

The Guardian - AU

Paul Keating labels Aukus submarine pact ‘worst deal in all history’ in attack on Albanese government

Former Labor PM blasts ‘incompetence’ of his party for backing nuclear submarine agreement with US and UK

ABC News

Paul Keating savages AUKUS nuclear submarine deal as Labor's worst since conscription

Former prime minister Paul Keating has taken aim at Australia's AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine deal with the United States and the United Kingdom, calling it the "worst international decision" by a Labor government since conscription in World War I.

The New Daily

Keating warns of Labor backlash on nuclear subs

Support for the expensive acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines from the US has stained Labor's foreign policy record, Paul Keating says.

AAP

Keating labels AUKUS 'irrational in every dimension'

Paul Keating has launched another scathing attack on the AUKUS security arrangement, calling it irrational and an affront to Australian administration.

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