Oh and just re-read your comment and sure back in the 70s and 80s when the US was looking to stitch up as much of our resources and industry as they felt like we were likely important to secure, these days... I'd bet you it takes three wranglers to get Trump to mispronounce Anthony Albanese's name. We are boring and if it wasn't for the fact that we have so much American ownership and a bunch of US military bases we wouldn't be important enough to even consider. You know our position on the tariff list is primarily based on our previous dumbarse Prime Minister getting preferential rates in the past then allowing other countries to siphon their products through our ports otherwise we might have been given the same rate as the penguins got.

Well aware. Seeing the US crash out the way it is make me hope that as a tiny consolation we might start to extricate ourselves even a little.

I did tell some friends once that I thought the best idea if the US goes ahead with tariffs on us, is we should start reconsidering the rent on Pine Gap. Would be hilarious if we looked at how much damage the tariffs did to our markets and then passed it on that way... What are they going to do, relocate the number 1 "definitely not a spy base" in this part of the world somewhere else... And where... Indonesia... But guess why that would never happen?