Despite the decades both major parties have spent ingratiating themselves with the leaders of the United States, Australia is unlikely to receive any favours from the Trump administration.
For once the clichés about turning points and game changers seem appropriate, even understated. Just when you might have been forgiven for thinking the international situation couldn’t get much worse, even in the privileged heartlands of liberal democracy we are about to endure another four years of Donald Trump.
With friends like these… By Mark Beeson