We put our balls firmly in their vice and they aren’t moving. If anything every Australian government, regardless of politics tries to tuck a bit more in every year with the standout concessions being digital sovereignty which is truly fucked and about to get much worse. It isn’t just the military/intelligence stuff. They have massive investment here and dominate financial and digital services. Probably the best we can hope for is to be neutral where we can along with a bit of malicious compliance.
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Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 month ago
This argues an interesting point. It kind of makes me wonder what happens if the US loses Australia as an ally.
Probably bad right?
shirro@aussie.zone 1 month ago
HalfEarthMedic@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
There’s no doubt Australia is strategically useful to the US(Pine gap, Exmouth, Garden Island), if the US continues its current course then the US ceases to be useful to Australia.
I can’t imagine that everyone in power doesn’t know this, maybe they’re all waiting to see if normality returns in 2028…
Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Me too.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I think most americans aren’t even aware that australia exists, most of the time, so they won’t bother too much.
What it means for australia could be a huge change, i guess.