Keating Comes Off the Long Run to Belt Taylor Through the Covers

SMH · Shane Wright, Natassia Chrysanthos · Thursday 16 April 2026

Keating Comes Off the Long Run to Belt Taylor Through the Covers

Paul Keating has launched a blistering attack on Angus Taylor and the Coalition's migration policy, calling it cowardly and racist — a throwback to the politics the Liberal Party once claimed to have outgrown.

The old man's come off the long run again, and fair enough — when Taylor's mob started dog-whistling on migration, they weren't just abandoning Menzies's broad church, they were burning it down for the insurance money. Keating at eighty-two still throws harder than the entire shadow cabinet combined. The Liberals keep handing him the bat and then complaining about the bruises.

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