Paul Keating can be his own worst enemy but his AUKUS spray raises big questions about China, defence, that have slipped us by


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The Australian Prime Minister travelled all the way from New Delhi to San Diego last weekend to bask in the spectacle of standing with the US President and the UK Prime Minister amid naval bands, submarines and sailors, to announce the biggest military hardware spend in Australia's history. Yet by the end of the week, all that imagery and hoopla had largely disappeared from the column inches devoted by the media to the story, along with much analysis of what the deal actually entails, to be replaced by commentary about whether a 79 year-old man had been mean to senior...