The three lessons for Australia in the US election
Australians are unlikely to support as crude a figure as Donald Trump. But we still must guard against the hyper-partisanship and identity politics that have bitterly split America.
Are there any lessons for Australia coming from the recent US elections? Plenty of commentators think there might be, and they are probably right.
The Australian media has followed the US elections in granular detail. And why not? The US is central to the stability of the Indo-Pacific region; it is the largest foreign investor in Australia and the primary destination of Australian offshore investments. It’s also our second biggest trading partner. What happens there affects all 26 million of us.
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Alexander Downer was Australia's longest serving foreign minister, from 1996 to 2007, and most recently Australian High Commissioner to the UK.
