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A disheveled Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong emerge from a 'PJK' room, smoke billows out. A man asks, 'How was the catch up with Paul?' Albanese responds: 'He went nuclear'.

The government’s decision to move ahead with the AUKUS nuclear submarines program attracted heated criticism from former Labor prime minister Paul Keating. In an address to the National Press Club, Keating called the agreement Labor’s ‘worst international decision’. He also criticised the government’s foreign policies more broadly, and singled out Foreign Minister Penny Wong for ‘running around with a lei … handing out money’ in the Pacific.