A veteran former Labor minister has savaged Paul Keating’s “laughable and embarrassing” views on China’s rise as senior government members distance themselves from the ex-prime minister.
Mr Keating has stirred division within Labor ranks after he blasted the Albanese government’s approach to China and denied Beijing’s coercion towards Australia and its allies.
“But probably the most laughable and embarrassing thing that Paul said at the press club yesterday was that Australia ‘we’re an island, we don’t have to worry, we don’t have a border with them’. Paul they’ve invented the internet since you were in government. Mr Keating’s direct criticisms of key Labor figures was dismissed at large by government ministers who have argued China had changed significantly since the mid-1990s.
“I think the people who have said the China of today is not the same as the China of his prime ministership have got a point,” Ms Plibersek told Sky News Australia. NDIS Minister Bill Shorten said Australia was no longer dealing with the “China of the 1990s” while Labor MP Peter Khalil declared Mr Keating had “misrepresented” the government’s approach to AUKUS.
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