Whoever wins the federal election on May 3 will face a fork in the road for Australia’s future

News Snapshot:

There's been a lot of commentary in the past few weeks about the way Donald Trump and foreign policy have intervened in, or loomed over, the Australian election campaign. We aren't really used to it, and it shows. The "debate" veers between a schoolyard discussion about who can be besties with the loudmouth bully, and a slightly uneasy, and not quite addressed noting of the fact that, er, the world trade system and geopolitics are in a state of complete upheaval. The way our relationships with the United States and China might play out amid this upheaval tends to be...