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…
shirro@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
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.