Forget steel, Trump tariffs could come for our $7b farm exports
Australia would be highly exposed to an all-out global trade war; the US has become the second-biggest export market for our farmers, among the most efficient producers in the world.
Australia would be highly exposed to an all-out global trade war; the US has become the second-biggest export market for our farmers, among the most efficient producers in the world.
As a country we should be far more concerned about the reasons that Whyalla steelworks collapsed rather than about the theoretical future impacts of US tariffs.
Washington simply can’t afford to support another forever war in Ukraine, quite aside from the likely loss of life that ultimately includes US troops.
The future is unsettling and unpredictable, but what’s certain is that last century’s extremely expensive model of taxpayers subsidising physical GP visits is already becoming obsolete.
Had Elon Musk performed his (admittedly) bizarre thank you gesture to a crowd of Trump supporters in Australia, rather than the US, he could have found himself in jail.
Unfortunately Henry Kissinger’s famous quip in the wake of the Vietnam War, that ‘to be America’s enemy is dangerous, to be its friend is fatal’, looks like it will prove true for Ukraine as well.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sat glumly, just metres away, as Donald Trump opened his second term by rounding on his political enemies and declaring: “I was saved by God to make America great again.”
The real Donald Trump is about to emerge, and is bound to shock and surprise. He has every right to boast about his remarkable return, but he’ll soon face the challenge of meeting the high expectations he has set.
The Greens cited concerns that the bill doesn’t ‘actually do what it needs to do’, as one of the top Republicans in the US Congress accused the Australian government of seeking to ‘censor speech worldwide’.
The pandemic illustrated that Australian governments already have more powers than most people realised, hidden in innocuous sounding little phrases in laws passed long ago. They do not need more.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/adam-creighton/page/2