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Australia is trying to pretend the world hasn’t changed

Australia is trying to pretend the world hasn’t changed

Trump’s revolution has upended politics in the US, Canada, Germany and the UK. Neither Labor nor the Coalition has seriously confronted the difficult policy responses required.

Neither Peter Dutton nor Anthony Albanese are facing up to hard questions in a changed world, unlike from left, US’ Scott Bessent, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, Canada’s Mark Carney, and UK’s Keir Starmer. Bethany Rae

Donald Trump’s new world disorder is gate-crashing Australia’s now-prolonged election campaign just as it is upending politics on both sides of the Atlantic. But will Labor and the Coalition face up to what this means?

Wall Street has been spooked into a correction-sized sell-off over Trump’s preparedness to let an escalating global trade war trip the American economy into recession. For Australia, that’s just the start of it.

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Michael Stutchbury
Michael StutchburyEditor-at-largeMichael Stutchbury is editor-at-large. He is in his fourth decade of writing for and editing national newspapers. After nearly six years as editor of The Australian, he returned to the Financial Review as editor-in-chief (2011-2024). Email Michael at mstutchbury@afr.com

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