Why Trump demands more from Australia’s defence budget
Increasing Australia’s defence budget to 3 per cent of gross domestic product would be acting in our own interests, however hard finding the money in the federal budget might be.
As Anthony Albanese’s election euphoria fades, the hard work of his second term has begun. And there’s probably not much that’s more difficult than navigating his meeting with US President Donald Trump at the G7 in Alberta, Canada.
Trump demonstrated his lack of knowledge of Australia in his post-election phone call, saying he didn’t know the “other person” who ran (Peter Dutton) and remarking Albanese was “very respectful”. That tells us we don’t have a lot of deep credit in the Trump bank.
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Michael Shoebridge is founder and director at Strategic Analysis Australia.
