Former prime minister Paul Keating's fresh criticism of the AUKUS agreement comes as a new deal was signed, which deputy prime minister Richard Marles said would not see Australia take on nuclear waste.
Deputy prime minster Richard Marles says Paul Keating's criticism of the AUKUS amounts to an unfair characterisation, as he pledged the security agreement would not turn Australia into a nuclear waste dumping ground. Former prime minister Keating — a staunch opponent of the agreement between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom — appeared on ABC's 7.
Marles added that he believed none of what Keating had said was news because the former prime minister had previously made his opposition clearly known. "I don't agree with it, but I absolutely acknowledge that as a former prime minister, as a great Labor prime minister, Paul Keating has a right to express his views in the public discourse, and that's what he's doing," Marles told ABC News Breakfast.
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