{
  "id": 3616330,
  "title": "Paul Keating and a very present past raise hard questions for a country of decidedly modest ambition",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/paul-keating-and-a-very-present-past-raise-hard-questions-for-a",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-26T23:40:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Crikey",
    "slug": "crikey",
    "url": "https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/27/paul-keating-grand-ambition-james-curran-aukus-china-security-usa/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new book on Paul Keating's foreign policy shows that the preoccupations of the 1990s remain deeply resonant for contemporary Australia — which has demonstrably shrunk in its ambitions since then. The post Paul Keating and a very present past raise hard questions for a country of decidedly modest ambition appeared first on Crikey .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}