As video emerged of Anthony Albanese saying Trump “scares the sh-t out of me”, Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley accused Labor of rooting for a Harris victory.
United States ambassador Caroline Kennedy has called for the creation of a special AUKUS visa to ensure Australia can achieve its plan to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, as senior ministers insisted the US-Australia alliance will in good shape regardless of whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the presidency.
Federal politicians and policymakers were anxiously awaiting the results of the US election, with Trump widely seen as a more volatile and unpredictable contender compared to Harris, who is expected to continue the thrust of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy.The Albanese government is insisting that Kevin Rudd will remain Australia’s top diplomat in Washington even though the former prime minister made remarks strongly critical of Trump before taking up his posting.
Asked whether he backed Kennedy’s idea, Defence Minister Richard Marles said: “We are working with the governments of the US and the UK to look at how that can be done.”Marles pointed to backers across the political divide in the US Congress to support his view that AUKUS will survive either a Trump or Harris victory, saying that “we do have a sense of confidence that going forward this is a program that will be supported in the United States, as it will in the UK, as it will here”.
“By comparison, the Labor Party and its affiliates and supporters are leaning into the Democrats and publicly doing so, and we can all contemplate what that might mean for future relations with a future US government,” she said.
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