Trump is not just the issue of a Canadian campaign. Australia is wrestling with its American relationship in the elections

On the horizon, US President Donald Trump is looming in the last weeks of Australia’s general election campaign, as the problem of conservative opposition leader Peter Daton is just as well as a new survey of the Australian faith in the United States at the lowest level ever.

Analysts and academics say that Trump’s amazing style and sabotage policies often, including “mutual” definitions against allies and attacks on American government agencies, have begun to alert Australian voters, analysts and academics.

These dynamics are similar, but they are not the same in Canada, where the riches of the liberal party were revived, according to a group of surveys, greatly by changing leadership from Justin Trudeau to Mark Carney before April 28 vote.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz has risen in various surveys for the Daton Coalition, with only three and a half weeks until the May 3 elections.

“Trump has emerged as a third candidate in this election campaign,” said Mark Kenny, a professor of politics at the Australian National University in Canberra.

“It made it very difficult for Peter Daton to communicate his message, and made it difficult for Dutton to be seen as a completely independent character in this election campaign.”

A survey issued on Wednesday, the Louis Institute, a research institution, found that only 36 percent of Australians expressed any level of confidence in the United States to act with responsibility, decreasing 20 points since the last survey in June 2024 and the lowest level since the annual survey was launched two decades ago.

The polling was made in March, before Trump announced its area of ​​definitions, including a 10 percent blanket on all Australian imports.

“Given the approach of President Donald Trump in his second term, it is not surprising that the Australians are less confident in the United States,” said Ryan Niel, Director of Public Opinion and Foreign Policy at the Louis Institute.

The job operator tries to link Datton to Trump, musk

Dutton, from the liberal party, carried out many policies that were widely seen as Trump and the government efficiency group (DOGE), created by Elon Musk. In January, Dateon Jacinta Nambinpine Prace as Minister of Shadow in Governmental Efficiency, is an inspired by the role of musk, analysts said.

“With the Australians of the Outside of Control Survey … Jacinta will closely look at how to achieve more efficient use of taxpayers.”

The Labor Party has benefited from the shift in public feelings, as Treasury Secretary Jim Chalmers has repeatedly indicated to the opposition leader in the name of “Dog Daton”.

Albaniz said on Tuesday that Dateon would enact “discounts similar to Dog” for the public sector if elected.

“(Australians) do not enjoy the turmoil and ventilation of the White House, and the early Hamas Datton was with other conservatives to celebrate Trump’s victory, he is largely advancing in his saddle bags throughout this campaign.”

“This weight has become heavier and heavier because Trump has become less popular and less popular.”

Large military relations and intelligence relations

The combat position of the new US administration is also the subject of a campaign regarding military cooperation between the two countries.

Australia pledged to buy three submarines in Virginia, which is a nuclear -powered by the United States in the 1930s, under the Triple AUKUS security partnership that also includes the UK, in an arrangement containing various plans and decades -stretching dialogue materials. The three countries are also, along with Canada and New Zealand, are part of the five intelligence participation alliance.

The Australian submarine agency said that obtaining nuclear submarines was a major part of the defense strategy in Australia of denial, and “will be equipped for intelligence, surveillance, sea war and additional scales.”

While Aukus has strong support from the major Australian parties, disappointment has been expressed that defensive relations did not win Australian exemptions from Trump’s tariff that put the program under unprecedented general audit.

Independent lawmakers in Trump doubt that the submarine deal is reviewed, although the impact of independents may be limited unless the suspended parliament is caused by the May 3 vote.

Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who obtained the AUKUS Treaty in 2021, said in an interview with Reuters that the threat posed by China and Australia’s deterrence, which works on nuclear powered submarines in the South China Sea and Indian oceans, directed the agreement.

“China is the threat – of course they are – and this is what should be deterred,” Morrison said.

“The idea of ​​more American boats and more British boats inside and around Australia, and at a station in Australia, in the theater, we always knew that this would bring the previous deterrent.”

Australia’s plan to buy Virginia submarines was added to Aukus by the Labor Party in 2023.

Albaniz, the elected in 2022, was less ready for China publicly criticizing, even as the air force in Australia and the Navy continued in navigation patrols in the South China Sea. This has become a political attack point in the election campaign of Duton, who was the Minister of Defense in the Morrison government.