Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has fired back at Paul Keating, accusing his predecessor of diminishing himself by attacking the government’s most senior cabinet ministers and saying he “fundamentally disagreed” with Keating’s relaxed view of modern China.
over the next 30 years was a worthwhile investment to enhance Australia’s national security in a volatile era.
“I don’t think that does anything other than diminish him, frankly. But that’s a decision that he’s made.”Asked to comment on Keating’s criticisms of Wong and Marles, Albanese described both ministers as “outstanding”, saying: “I’ll defend them and I’ll defend myself as well for the job that we’re doing.”
, rather than conventional vessels, because “they are less detectable, they’re faster, they’re able to stay away from the port for longer”.“They’re essentially just much, much better,” he said. “And we should acquire assets which best defend our nation.”, Keating presented a largely benign view of China’s rise to superpower status, saying it was “not the old Soviet Union” and was “not seeking to propagate some competing international ideology” to the United States.
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