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Keating’s troubling take on Taiwan deserves attention
The former prime minister advocates abandoning a democracy of 24 million people. But his critics have to answer some very awkward questions.
Laura TingleColumnistEd Husic, like Paul Keating, grew up in Sydney’s west, though in the decades that separate the two Labor politicians’ time in Parliament, just what is “the west” has been radically transformed.
Bankstown was the west in Keating’s day. Now it is somewhere closer to Penrith. Husic’s electorate is about 40 kilometres west of Keating’s old stomping ground.
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