Former prime minister Paul Keating has told the National Press Club that Australia ‘is now very much at odds with its geography and it has lost its way.’ The former Labor PM said Australia must deal more productively with China and criticised the current government for looking for its ‘security from Asia rather than in Asia’. Keating also called the federal government’s planned submarine project under Aukus ‘like throwing a handful of toothpicks at the mountain’
