As 45th President, he had already demonstrated his remarkable ability.

As the 47th, he will no doubt relieve America from the ideologies that the long march through her institutions has imposed on the nation.

UNCONTROLLED

He will close the borders to the uncontrolled massive migration that Biden imposed in breach of the law.

He will require freeloaders to become true allies.

He will return the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis to the good behaviour they prudently demonstrated during his first term.

He will restore peace in the Middle East, as he did with the Abraham Accords.

He has ensured his ideas will continue with his choice of JD Vance as candidate vice president.

And whatever he does at home will be a lesson for the free world.

We must, therefore, ignore the commentariat that scorn him, just as they scorned Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, John Howard and Tony Abbott.

Remembering that Providence has long been fundamental to the American project, we should ignore the elites who ridicule those who see divine intervention in Trump’s narrow escape from death.

We should especially ignore those who repetitively describe his interpretation of crucial events as “blatant lies”, including the widely held belief that the 2020 election was stolen.

The Supreme Court case brought by Texas, supported by eighteen States and one hundred Congressional representatives, details the flouting of the Constitution’s express words to steal that election.

The judges, already threatened by Senate Democrat Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, refrained from ruling on this because of a legal technicality.

In any event, Australia has long been intimately linked with America’s destiny. The American influence in Australia was such that many more key aspects of American constitutionalism can be found in ours than in the Canadian or that of any other former British dominion.

POWER

Indeed, many Australians in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries saw their country’s future, in terms of development, wealth and power, as following and even rivalling America’s.

To them, Australia was to be the America of the Pacific.

But as the great broadcaster Alan Jones long argued, such a golden future for Australia will never be achievable without moving water from where it falls to where it is needed.

Instead, the prevailing establishment belief is that while new dams are undesirable (a policy introduced by the Hawke Government in 1983), it is not only acceptable but desirable to destroy the environment to enrich Beijing with what will be useless junk: solar and wind farms.

Instead, they support the insanity of cramming massive immigration into just three overcrowded conurbations on the world’s most sparsely populated continent.

Without a watered Australia making us like America, we at least remain closely aligned with her. This is in our nature.

Australia had the good fortune to be settled by the British, whose empire, despite its faults, did far more good than any other.

It should not be forgotten that in ending the slave trade, the British employed, for over sixty years and at great human and monetary cost, the world’s then greatest force, the Royal Navy, in outlawing the Atlantic slave trade.

As to Australia, self-government was granted within a surprisingly short period of time, with the British being the earliest proponents of federation.

DEFEND

This experience of tutelage under the then greatest power on earth confirmed in Australians, unusually for a former colony, the vocation of the nation being a good international citizen.

As such, Australia has been involved, to a remarkable degree, in helping to defend the freedom of others.

We were among the very few countries that played a significant role from the beginning to the end of the Second World War, where, as a proportion of the population, almost twice as many Australians gave their lives than Americans.

In the First World War, the proportion was ten times that of the Americans. This is not to denigrate the great contribution of the US in both wars, but to compare ours with another power outside the central areas of conflict.

In our short history as a nation with international interests, the world has changed.