The former Labor prime minister Paul Keating surprises ABC presenters Jane Norman and Andrew Probyn by sitting down with them outside Labor’s election campaign launch in Brisbane on Sunday. Keating says he is surprised how ‘threadbare’ the Coalition’s agenda is, saying they have no vision of where Australia fits in the world. All they have to offer is ‘trickle-down economics and a tax cut five years away’, he says. On climate change, Keating says the world will stop using fossil fuels, adding, ‘Here’s the prime minister walking around with a lump of coal, coal is a fossil and the problem is the prime minister is a fossil himself. He’s a fossil with a baseball cap but he’s a fossil.’ He denounces the Liberal party’s commitment to supporting coal, saying, ‘They’re living in the past, they’re policy deadbeats’
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