The US ambassador says Australia will be able to count on the US as a reliable ally, even if Donald Trump is elected president a second time
needed to change, but that “hopefully, by the end of the year, it will be part of the Defence Authorisation Act”.Senior Biden administration sources privately say that key legislation underpinning both of the so-called AUKUS pillars will pass this year, allowing the submarine transfer and deeper co-operation on other technologies such as cyber, electronic warfare, quantum technology, hypersonics, artificial intelligence and autonomous military capabilities.
While it may seem surprising that a Kennedy, as a member of one of America’s storied Democrat dynasties and the representative of Joe Biden, would defend Trump, “it’s fascinating and reassuring that she says that because it shows how committed her administration is to presenting a bipartisan front”, said Rory Medcalf, head of the ANU National Security College.
Medcalf said he found this comment “credible and reassuring” and “consistent with soundings I’ve taken inside the US system”, although “you can never be certain” about Congressional negotiations.. She starkly illustrated its effects through her family’s long connection to the Solomons Islands, where her father, John F. Kennedy, was marooned in World War II after a Japanese destroyer sank his patrol boat in August 1943.
“Kennedy Island is half the size it used to be, so this is something that … doesn’t feel as urgent and imminent and existential in the US,” the ambassador said.Anyone who doubted that human activity was driving climate change should, she said, “just go outside in a tornado”.Kennedy said that Australia and the US were aligned on many areas including democratic values, security interests and climate change but also culture, including a love of beer and sport.
“So I think, you know, that’s one of the great and most rewarding things about serving in a country that’s as aligned with the US and is just feeling that sort of joy in the partnership.”
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