A woman we know had a son who had been a business consultant in Oz for over 10 years. He had an ag degree from UC Davis and a MBA from Pepperdine.
A year ago he sold all of his property in OZ and was ending his consulting business and planning to come back here before Thanksgiving/ Christmas there.
His sister is married to a guy who would be classified as a spook for Homeland Sec. on the west coast and travels all over the Pac area. This guy told his BIL not to pull out of Oz yet. He said the new PM and government was very anti ChiCom and pro business and pro Trump.
So this young man is still there and doing very well. He jokes with his mom that his go back home bag is still packed with an open ended one way airline ticket.
Recently, an article showed that Oz was attracting more millionaires leaving their homelands than any other country.
He said President Trump is relating very well with the new government.
Read articles supporting this.
OZ sells to a lot of the world. I have friends in GODZONE who are actively predisposed to the Chinese menace.
To now them is to distrust them, IMO.
Not sure if the Abo or Maori movements in OZ & NZ are going to be as manipulated as the US blacks.
Final thought: Australia was populated by convicts and the indentured poor, who encountered a very harsh land, with the majority of the interior barely habitable. Maybe the coastal cities are effete, but the interior isn’t. Not sure about the NW, but I’ve been in the NE and outside the tourist towns, it is pretty raucous.
Not a lot of white guilt there.