Morrison done for

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Newspoll has a couple of results today which suggest that the Coalition government is cooked. First up, AUKUS:

A significant majority of voters back the construction of a ­nuclear-powered submarine fleet for the Australian navy amid community anxiety over the perceived national security threat posed by China.

Most also believed that the trilateral strategic defence pact with the US and UK announced two weeks ago by Scott Morrison would make Australia safer in the midst of increasing strategic tensions in the region.

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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.