Bring on the Aussie Brexit

Friday 1 November 2019

Lowy Institute’s Sam Roggeveen does a shockingly arrogant job on an Aussie Brexit today:

There are strong parallels between Australian politics and the chaos witnessed in recent years in Europe and the United Kingdom.

My contention is that in Australia, immigration – a long-running point of domestic controversy with profound consequences for foreign policy – is a compelling analogue to the issue that divided Britain in 2016.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.