I’m not for muzzling: Keating quits

Paul Keating has severed official involvement with the $6 billion Barangaroo development by spectacularly quitting as chairman of its design review panel after a row with the Planning Minister, Brad Hazzard, whom he accused of trying to muzzle him.

The former prime minister informed Mr Hazzard of his resignation last night after receiving a stinging reprimand over his dismissal of opponents of Barangaroo as sandal-wearing, muesli-chewing, bike-riding pedestrians — via redwolf.newsvine.com