A new poll conducted for The Australia Institute reveals that more than half of Australian voters believe Donald Trump is a greater threat to global security than Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping. Read more on our website ⬇️ https://theaus.in/4uy01N8

You can read here about Hashim and the other people, mostly children, who would still be alive if the Trump administration had not so callously upended the means of their survival. We know their names thanks to the essential work of journalists timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/the-people...

"The Labor government continues to behave as if Trump can be waited out, as if the world can weather this storm and return to normal. The government debases itself on our behalf." @emmashortis.bsky.social #AUKUS #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...

@emmashortis.bsky.social with the best escoriation yet of the the US-Aust alliance. 👏 @gekko.bsky.social Australians ready to break up with Trump’s US www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...

Dr @emmashortis.bsky.social serves a dish of reality: "Most of us view the leader of our most important security ally & the world’s most important democracy as a greater threat to world peace than the leaders of the world’s two most powerful authoritarian states." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Not me doing a radio interview on the street outside school with my numbers cheat sheet written on an old boarding pass. I’m a treat! Recording the 100th episode of After America today, hopefully not on the street. Talking about these numbers and more. Send us your questions!!

New Australia Institute polling shows 59% of Australian voters believe Trump is a greater threat to global security than Putin or Xi. A year ago, it was just 31%. "Most Australians are ready to break up with Donald Trump's version of America." @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

“This poll represents a seismic shift in the way Australians think about the United States,” said Dr Emma Shortis, Director of The Australia Institute’s International & Security Affairs Program. “We need to break up with Trump.” Read more: https://theaus.in/4f6KFea

Polling on an absolute tear today. Only only 46% of Republican men say they could beat Trump in a fight. Lollllllllllllllllllllllllllll

It’s a wonky term, but “polycrisis” helps us remember that climate change, economic injustice, and far right reactionary politics are not separate, nor are they really analogies or metaphors for one another.

Oh hey the @australiainstitute.org.au also has some polling research out today, also bad for Donald Trump! More than half of Australians now believe that President Donald Trump is a greater threat to global security than Russian President Vladimir Putin (17%) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (16%).

"Higher interest rates will do nothing to open the Strait of Hormuz. Higher interest rates cannot change the world price of oil and bring down fuel prices,” said Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist at The Australia Institute. Read the full media release: https://theaus.in/4n6xcoB

The US Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act, a decision that's already having serious implications for American democracy. Allan Behm & @emmashortis.bsky.social discuss the war on Iran, US troop withdrawals from Germany & the Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling. 🎧 theaus.in/3QMtAw5

"Rich Kid, Poor Kid reinforces the urgency and devastation of the school funding problem in Australia. @janecaro.bsky.social delivers the story in a way that should propel readers into action" says Elisa Di Gregorio in The Conversation theconversation.com/australias-f...

30 years after the Port Arthur massacre, some of the sweeping changes to Australia's gun laws announced by John Howard still haven't been implemented. Australia’s gun control laws have been effective, but they are neither perfect nor complete. @alicektg.bsky.social #auspol

"To have the President of the United States quite literally threaten to commit genocide is shocking, and does destroy any credibility that the United States has as a good faith actor." 📺 @emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol

"It's happened astonishingly quickly. "So quickly that I think Americans themselves are in shock about it & don't know how to think about it." @jamespwest.bsky.social & @emmashortis.bsky.social on the Trump administration's decision to launch its war on Iran. @motherjones.com 🎧 theaus.in/4cQFXhZ

Violence is a shocking feature of American democracy. @emmashortis.bsky.social reflects on another appalling yet unsurprising act of violence, then @jamespwest.bsky.social joins us to discuss if fractures are emerging in the MAGAverse ahead of the midterms. @motherjones.com 🎧 theaus.in/4cQFXhZ

Listening to ABC coverage describe this as an “extraordinary event”. It’s not. Political violence is a regular occurrence in America. It’s baked in.

Comparing his war to Vietnam sure is a choice

Australia is one of the largest gas exporters in the world, but Australians don't get a fair return for this finite resource. @davidpocock.bsky.social joins @richarddenniss.bsky.social & @leanneminshull.bsky.social to discuss the case for a 25% gas export tax. #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/4mOkQ4v

Remind me, how much is being spent on AUKUS and defence to meet the demands of a foreign leader again?

Not a big deal — it’s not like the U.S. Navy has any large-scale operations going on right now or anything.

New episode out today. Also very unrelated. australiainstitute.org.au/post/trump-i...

I have been loaning out my copy of this fervently, glad that I can now trust people to get their own copies to annotate ✒️

I’ve been a bit slack on socials over the last few weeks (and, you know, always) partly because I’ve apparently become a podcast bro. Little thread of some recent ones here!

I swear every episode of After America I can hear a bit more of @emmashortis.bsky.social soul leave her body 🥲 It’s very relatable

Trump didn't "single out" Australia, he showed just how isolated the US has become. "Australia has ready allies who are all trying to grapple with...how we might build a more peaceful world." @emmashortis.bsky.social on responding to an off-the-rails Trump administration. 🎧 theaus.in/4tINHJB

A terrific discussion about a mess of Trump’s own making. Amazingly, there is a diplomatic solution if this Admin is smart enough to take it.

We’re back! Everything is still terrible!

Add it to the “this was in Project 2025” list

Between humiliation and escalation, he chose humiliation. For now.

The United States has been shoved off the world stage.

Again with the “two weeks”

Much to consider. Initial thoughts: 1. maybe he's lying (I'm going to bed shortly and will find out in the morning I guess) 2. Immediate credit to Pakistan is interesting 3. See no reason to believe this isn't unilateral, i.e. the Iranians have agreed to nothing 4. Please don't say "consummated"

Thank god for TACO but we cannot proceed like this

Even if this turns out to be another TACO moment--tick, tick--just saying this shit damages our societies, helps destroy fundamental aspects of how politics is conducted & helps create a more violent and unstable world. There is no "sensible centrist" long game to play against this sort of insanity.

Last week at the Press Club the Prime Minister said (again) that the US is Australia’s most important security ally. We’d better hope his office is doing everything they can to leverage that right now. If Trump follows through and gives the order, there’s every likelihood it comes through here.

Been thinking about this headline all day (and for obvious reasons, feels extra relevant this afternoon). It's not a "dilemma". The law is clear.

Important not to lose sight of the racism inherent in this threat: "We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong."

Really loving how all of this is also happening on the last day of school term.

“I have to respond to the real world as it is.” Yes, Prime Minister. Why don’t you do that.

The strait 'will just open up naturally' he says. Problem solved

Wtf did I just watch

I hate this 'uhm actually 🤓☝️ i knew nothing was going to happen' bullshit from people. that was a reckless thing for the govt to have done. tensions are very high, nothing in that address couldn't have been said at 1pm. the drama was concoted by the govt and it's fair to respond accordingly

I think it says a lot that Australians are so cynical about their leadership they expected something insane, and that our political leadership felt that an address to the nation that said nothing except "this Iran thing is a mess" would calm things down.

I have a bad feeling about this

Yesterday @drilledmedia.bsky.social published my story looking at Australian defence and foreign policy thinktanks advocating for increased gas production as part of a broader, regional geopolitical strategy, all the while taking money from the US and Japan. Here are the key points. /n

President Trump will address the nation tomorrow evening on the war in Iran, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.