I wouldn't say we hate you, but there is a lot of anger at the way you're treating one of you staunchest allies, afterall we were with you in Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan, all actions which really had nothing to do with us. We're even trying to buy some nuclear powered subs from you guys, as part of a special alliance called AUKUS, unless the deal gets changed of course. We buy far more off you guys than you buy off us, so putting tariffs on our exports to you is just stupid, especially as we don't pay the tariffs, they are payed by whoever is importing them over there. Notice that our government hasn't retaliated with tariffs on US exports to us, because they realise that would raise prices here, and raise inflation here.
There are some Australians who are really upset by the whole beef situation, and they're very vocal, but most of us aren't bothered, because we're not going to buy US beef anyway, it'll probably cost more than our beef, and won't be as good.
I think we're all just worried where you're heading, it doesn't look to be anywhere good.
We had a federal election here earlier this year, our conservative party got slapped down hard, they were trying to distance themselves from anything that seemed similar to what the Republicans did, or were doing, over there, they even had a senator say "Make Australia Great Again" before denying she ever said it, but the damage was done. The leader of the conservative party even lost his seat and got kicked out of our version of the Congress.
So, we definitely don't hate you, but we don't see you as the friends you once were, collectively that is. You guys are all still good with me personally, I hope you all stay safe over there.
