Like it or not Allies of America are in a cold war with Trumps America. The Tarrifs and threats are an act if war. To prevent a HOT WAR we must unit and win the Cold War against Trumps America #Auspol #EU #UK #NZ #Asia #Wales #Scotland #Ireland #Mexico
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Gasp, this is most unexpected... the COALition Liebs & Nuts railing yet again at workers & unions 
. Still, prolly fair enough, innit, given these delightful pollies have already solved the previously intractable problems of white-collar crime, inequitable taxation, racism, transmisia, domestic violence, social support, climate crisis, ohmightyzarquonican'tgoonanymore...
As well, the world should stop arrivals or put in #quarantine anyone from or travelling through the #US due to lack of medical response to #contagious #diseases. #measles #vaccinations #USPol #auspol #RFK
@ProgressivePower Quite frankly, all countries need this.
Amuses me to no end this is - and will always be - mining oligarch Gina Rinehart's defining portrait.
In part because it captures her perfectly, in part because she tried to have it banned.
Flashback: In 2021, Australia's then conservative government backstabbed the French to trash a multi-billion deal for high-grade submarines all to suck up to the United States for the privilege of paying for their nuclear submarine bases on our soil.
The 'deal,' known as AUKUS, involves Australia handing over hundreds of billions of dollars for Virginia Class Submarines which, most agree, will never be delivered and which the current US leader can not even name.
In February, Australia handed over a cheque for $800 million as part of the arrangement.
All for technology that was obsolete twenty years ago and, even if delivered, will get murdered by the first wave of hostile submersible drone swarms it encounters.
@fixatedpersonsunit Ahhhh nice one 
Now if only I could click to unsee..
Flights, accommodation, car expenses and 'incidentals'
Conservative Australian politicians rorted $10k to attend far-right conference.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/16/coalition-senators-taxpayer-funded-trip-cpac
Murdoch's Australian Fox News urges leader of the conservatives, Peter Dutton, to be more like Trump going into a federal election.
HahahahahHAHAHahaha. Fucking dooeet. Electoral oblivion. We believe in you, Peter.
Peter #Dutton’s response to climate change is to make insurance more affordable so people can recover from natural disasters better.
Put the LNP last.
Indeed. State Premier facing an election. (Kind of like a state governor, but not really.)
Won in a landslide.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/wa-premier-roger-cook-calls-us-vp-jd-vance-a-knob-/105007706
Australia's Prime Minister has had a single phone call with Trump, while its ambassador to the US, a former Prime Minister, is on the record calling the US leader a 'traitor', 'destructive' and 'village idiot'.
Australia is pushing on with backing Ukraine, offering up continued financial support and peacekeepers should a ceasefire eventuate, but has so far done nothing in response to tariffs.
The Australian people are pissed and embarking on their own boycotts, particularly incensed by the United State's treatment of Canada for who they hold great sympathy and friendship and in which they see a blueprint for their own treatment. Something's brewing and the status quo will not hold. When the 'relationship' breaks, it's going to break hard.
@fixatedpersonsunit I replied to someone earlier that the timing is just a coincidence, the tariffs are going on broadly from the start of April, well due to
I can't see the LNP walking away from the PBS, that would be political suicide
The question is what we do to avoid drug prices exploding
@platypusparent I've seen a few references to election timing and the tariffs recently, that's purely coincidental. Most of the world is copping them at the same time
Drugs and the PBS should have everyone paying attention though, that's a big one
'The message is clear: Australia is just another freeloader. The tariff exemption granted to Turnbull in 2018 was "abused" and there will be no special treatment this time around.
Another round of tariffs — potentially on beef and drug makers — will almost certainly hit next month, just as the election campaign gets rolling.'
Twenty-six world leaders conduct virtual meeting to organise support for Ukraine. United States not invited.
If the US govt goes after Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in early April, as the current timetable suggests, it will impact the country's May federal election.
PBS touches everyone, delivering affordable medicines across a vast array of common illnesses and conditions and some not so common. Australia's conservative Coalition parties will scramble to defend the move and may even give up, having made use of the PBS themselves in the past to campaign on.
In such a super-charged political environment, the one group that will not escape attack from nearly all sectors is the Trump administration itself. If the US does go after the PBS, it will bring Australia into the trade wars, seething. Nothing will be safe or off limits. Tariffs, trade, treaties, AUKUS. This little marsupial mouse will roar.
Major trade battle looming between Australia and the United States with potential to severely damage, if not destroy, the relationship.
Trump administration reportedly has sights set on the country's vaunted Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that delivers affordable medicines to tens of millions of Australians.
