Australia's political landscape has long been tumultuous and rough around the edges. But amoung the rough, there is a diamond. Enter ex-prime minister, sharp shooter and straight talker, Paul Keating. He's sassy AF.

Keating made headlines again Wednesday by implying the country's foreign policy was suffering because governmental powers are too concerned with appeasing the U.S.

It's just the latest public comment in the long line of brutal honesty and cynical realism that is Paul Keating's autobiography. Need hard evidence? Watch and learn children. The shade.

That time he compared the prime minister to a pile of rubbish.

Or that time he compared another prime minister to a popular cooking ingredient.

When he called a former treasurer of Australian government a "talking knee."

When he lavished the same politician with the most visceral of insults.

When he went hard on his arch nemesis in front of his friends.

When he got downright sexual with the opposition.

The Australian political landscape isn't always interesting, but when it is, it usually has something to do with Paul Keating.