Letter

In response to What should Labor do with its majority?

Reading Trump

The first thing Labor should do is scrap AUKUS. The very fact that Donald Trump played dumb when questioned about the deal at an early press conference should have rung alarm bells.

He knows a dumb deal (dumb for us) when he sees one. He also knows a “nice“ deal (read sucker) when he sees one.

That he didn’t scrap AUKUS at the beginning of his term should ring alarm bells for many Labor voters.

Keeping Richard Marles as defence minister, and dumping two others to appease the factions, indicates it’s going to be another long do-nothing threes years.

— Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA