Fake left demands China rule Australia

Monday 8 September 2025

The fake left is as dangerous as it is stupid.

…a contribution from the strategist and former Kevin Rudd staffer Lachlan Harris stands out this week.

Responding to Hugh White’s recent Quarterly Essay, Hard New World, Harris, a businessman and student of political communications, makes the case that the next great prime minister will be the person who shifts Australia’s gaze away from the US.

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About the author

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.