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Maeve Bannister and Andrew Brown

REVEALED: Aukus critics raise environmental security threat - The Real Truth

Criticism is growing over the AUKUS deal to provide eight nuclear-powered submarines for Australia. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

As Australia takes its first steps to establish to a nuclear-powered submarine production line, its announcement by federal Labor has been torpedoed by one of its own.

Former prime minister Paul Keating fired a withering salvo at his former party, labelling AUKUS the worst international decision by an ALP government in more than a century.

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