Events over the past few days have shown that the Coalition’s flawed strategy of keeping the Trump administration at arm’s length is not only detrimental to its own election chances but detrimental to this nation.
In an alternative universe, Peter Dutton would have already flown to Washington, already met one-on-one with Donald Trump, already promised a close working relationship in exchange for tariff exemptions and publicly supported Mr Trump’s efforts to bring peace to Ukraine and Gaza.
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