Every family has one, the curmudgeonly old relative who broods annoyingly in the background – except for special family occasions which they always manage to spoil. Bitter, nasty, spiteful. The nicest thing you can say about them is they have an unkind word to say about everyone.
It’s a role that has fallen naturally to Labor’s elder statesman and former Prime Minister John Paul Keating.
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