It should mean Australia has to grow up and accept the responsibilities of being an ethical middle-power in our region, not reliant on an unstable, inward-focused fading superpower.

It should mean, as Paul Keating has put it, that we seek security within our region, not from it.

But it won’t. One of our major parties doesn’t have the ticker, the other is turning Trumpy.

Trumpification Australia. The winners and losers and what might be