The biggest current question facing Australia may not be whether it can trust the U.S., but whether it can have the confidence to trust itself.
With just 27 million people, Australia is the world’s 13th largest economy. It has the 11th largest GDP per capita. It ranks 10th on the human development index. Its major cities consistently rank amongst the world’s “most liveable,” and the vast majority of its population live in a state of comfort that most of the world could only dream of. By any metric, Australia is an extraordinarily successful country. Yet Australia lacks that confidence you’d expect such success to produce.
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