Is Australia better off with Trump or Harris?

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Greg Sheridan says Trump:

A Donald Trump presidency would probably be better for Australia than a Kamala Harris presidency. There’s a simple reason for this. America would almost certainly be stronger internationally and project a more credible deterrence under Trump than it would under Harris.

…Trump will want to spend more on defence than Harris will. The US defence budget is way behind where it needs to be. But, more importantly, America’s adversaries will find Trump just as unpredictable as everyone else does. And he’s unpredictable in a way that can help US strategic interests.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.