Paul Keating has been out of office for thirty years. But he’s never really left the national conversation.

Keating wanted Australia to find its security in Asia, not from it, and to stop defining itself through bigger powers in the Anglosphere.

That vision now sits uneasily alongside AUKUS, a more powerful China, and an Australia tied ever more closely to the United States.

Today, historian and author of Grand Ambition James Curran, on Keating’s argument for a more independent Australia – and why it continues to challenge the modern Labor Party.

 

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Guest: Historian and author of Grand Ambition, James Curran

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Paul Keating has been out of office for thirty years. But he&rsquo;s never really left the national conversation.
Keating wanted Australia to find its security in Asia, not from it, and to stop defining itself through bigger powers in the Anglosphere.
That vision now sits uneasily alongside AUKUS, a more powerful China, and an Australia tied ever more closely to the United States.
Today, historian and author of&nbsp;Grand Ambition James Curran, on Keating&rsquo;s argument for a more independent Australia &ndash; and why it continues to challenge the modern Labor Party.
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Guest: Historian and author of Grand Ambition, James Curran
Photo:&nbsp;AAP Image/Darren England

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Paul Keating's unfinished argument for an independent Australia

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