It was only a matter of time until the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gunmen of Syria’s post-Assad interim government took into their own hands violence against non-Sunni Muslims.  

Rather than an American anomaly, the impetuous 47th President of the United States is in control of a power system that was already broken, after decades of unipolarity and neoliberal agendas. At the international level, Trump voices an open refusal of the multilateral liberal order in favour of power politics, a choice that America had made in the past, without letting that be known. Donald Trump’s true innovation in today’s politics is therefore in the blunt language with which he announces his “America First” priorities, while his country’s goals of world supremacy remain the same.

The choices Australians make in this year’s federal election will define Australia’s role in protecting human dignity, fostering global stability, and critically, securing our future.