Campaign catchup 2019: Labor tidies up after Keating's hand grenade

Day 23: a day after the former PM blasted intelligence agencies as ‘nutters’ on China, Labor scrambles to their defence

Paul Keating does not go anywhere quietly. He’s either present, and memorably so, or absent, and entirely shtum. On Sunday, Keating arrived at Labor’s campaign launch. With a laconic expression, he shepherded Julia Gillard and Kevin Ruddwho made a show of making up – into the Brisbane convention centre. Then Keating arrived early for a conversation on ABC24, to the surprise of the hosts Andrew Probyn and Jane Norman.

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