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Sydney (Australia), Nov. 9, 2016 (dpa/NAN) Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday that the relationship between Australia and the U.S. would remain one of “trust and confidence” with president-elect Donald Trump in the White House.
Turnbull told reporters in Canberra that “we have no stronger relationship, whether it’s on the battlefield or in commerce, than we have with the U.S.
“We’ll continue to work with our friends in the United States through the Trump administration, just as we have through the Obama administration, just as we always will.”
Earlier Turnbull had said Trump’s victory was another example of global voter unrest following Brexit.
He said “it’s very important in this time of unprecedented change, economic change, technological change, to ensure all sectors of the community are not left behind.”
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Australia remained hopeful that Obama administration would use the so-called “lame duck session” of the Congress to approve the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Opposition Labor party leader Bill Shorten, who had called Trump “barking mad” and “entirely unsuitable to be the leader of the free world” made a possitive remark.#
He said the result was a sign of a political era where “disaffection and disengagement are easily harnessed”.
The alliance with the U.S. has thrived for seven decades, he said, and “it is far bigger than any individual, far more powerful than any personality and it will endure.” (dpa/NAN)
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Edited by Damilola Oyewole/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu