While Trump’s own supporters fear he may be dragging the US into another ‘forever war’, many Australians will be consoled by the fact that Albanese gives every indication he has no appetite to join any American ‘unilateral action’ down the track.
Anthony Albanese has chosen corporate welfare over environmental wellbeing for Australia. His appointment of Murray Watt as minister for the environment highlights his determination to grant corporate demands for more environmental sacrifice in this age of ecological crisis.
Donald Trump’s cavalier treatment of his supposed friends should have come as no surprise to Australia’s prime minister, left sitting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada without so much as a phone call cancelling a much-heralded meeting.
Days before the prime minister departed for the G7 summit in Canada this weekend he delivered a speech drawing a powerful contrast between his government and that of United States President Donald Trump.
Two decades ago, I warned that factions created the danger of making the Labor Party look like a transactional organisation in which power is regarded as factional property. I pushed for an urgent expansion of party membership, which never happened.
The teal independents will need to be united in intent. The opportunity to form a government, ready to confront corporate intransigence in the face of global inequity and breakdown, should not be lost. Simple as that.
The Liberal and National parties have agreed to give the relationship another go but at a worrying cost. Disunity is now a significant challenge for the new Coalition, both within each party and between them, compounded by the recent allocation of portfolios.
It has taken the second coming of the wildly erratic Donald Trump and a landslide election win to do it, but Anthony Albanese is finally manifesting a new-found confidence in standing up for Australia with his responses to the whims of our key strategic partner.
My generation has grown up thinking our votes and voices do not matter. Yet on the night of May 3, they did. For the first time, almost half the voting population at this election was either Millennial or Gen Z. The impact was unmistakeable.