Given the election result, nobody will be interested in Hastie’s "sensible advice". 'Sensible' is a word that doesn't apply to the Australian political class or the boofheads who keep voting for them.

Oh ..the agony of the Leftists that now encounter a US under the Right. Hay foot straw foot, left right left; and right there is the real problem of an alliance with the US; who can guess what comes next!

Agree with the thrust of this article. Yes, transparency regarding our relationship with the USA is long overdue.

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Dear Binoy,

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That’s the price to pay for our security. If we don’t like it, all we have to do is to refuse it.

It’s a question that should be put to the Australian people by referendum.

I, personally, would vote in favour of continuing, for the time being, with the Americans, but that could change depending on future developments.

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Anti-Americans whine about losing Australia's sovereignty if we act like the good ally we used to be, in our own interests. Perhaps they wouldn't mind losing said sovereignty to Communist China, because that is looking more and more like the alternative.

The numbskulls don't realise that the Communist Chinese dictatorship wants to replace American influence in OUR region. America could survive if that happened; Australia could not - except as a vassal state of China.

Australia is already a left-wing country, with a big, communist-style government elected by people who want lots of free stuff. The same people have sat back and allowed the mass immigration of even more freeloaders into the country to vote for communist-style governments.

Despite the high population increase, none of the new arrivals are filling the 300,000 jobs that have been vacant over the last four years.

The airhead elected to lead the Liberal Party further into oblivion frets that “immigrants” (who should really not be seen as immigrants when they've been here long enough to vote and gain citizenship) didn't vote for them.

Why would they, when the communist-style Albanese government pays the best bribes?