As Scott Morrison trips over his own contradictions, Keating’s views on China have remained steadfast

Ed Husic, like Paul Keating, grew up in Sydney’s West, though in the decades that separate the two Labor politician’s time in parliament, just what “the west” is has been radically transformed.

Bankstown was the West in Keating’s day. Now the West is somewhere closer to Penrith. Husic’s…