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Paul Keating

The Australian

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Best of 2024: The military control of Australia

The Albanese government with their policy is likely to turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States, writes former Prime Minister of...

26.12.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Australians pierce the foreign policy propaganda of both major parties

A Resolve Political Monitor poll published in today’s Sydney Morning Herald makes clear that the Australian community at large possesses a...

11.11.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Marles, with all pretention, flogging a dead seahorse

Richard Marles and his mate, the US Defense Secretary, are beginning to wilt under the weight of sustained comment in Australia critical of the...

27.09.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Nancy Pelosi: ‘Pot calling the kettle black’

Nancy Pelosi said of my recent 7.30 interview ‘it is not in the security interest of the Asia-Pacific region for people to talk that way’ – that...

13.08.2024 5

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

Desperate in its search for security from Asia we are becoming a US protectorate

In responding to comments made by me overnight in respect of AUKUS and defence arrangements with the United States, the Prime Minister says ‘the...

09.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

The military control of Australia

The Albanese government with their policy is likely to turn Australia into the 51st state of the United States, writes former Prime Minister of...

08.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating

AUKUS servility just one facet of poor governance

Richard Marles has the Navy out in force firing torpedoes at AUKUS critics. On Friday last, Vice Admiral Jonathan Mead claimed the critics need to...

30.07.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Paul Keating