So Hot Right Now
Brett Lethbridge
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.