Days after the Canadian election, he was best supported by President Donald Trump, the center of elections in another liberal democracy.

In Australia, trust in the United States is declining, which voted on Saturday to impose global financial turmoil caused by Trump tariffs on global trading partners, including Australia, including U.S. allies and key security partners with China.

Just like in Canada, Australia's opposition Conservative Liberal Party won the victory before Trump returned to the office due to public outrage over the cost of living and record housing prices. But since then, it has lost support from increasingly focused on how the administration handles Trump’s voters.

On Thursday, two polls showed liberals lagging behind the center-left Labor Party led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Since becoming party leader in 2022, his rival Peter Dutton has pushed the Liberal Party toward power.

His nod to Trump included a commitment to cut 41,000 public service efforts, suggesting reduced legal immigration to Australia and appointing shadow ministers to government efficiency, prompting his opponent to call him "Doge-y Dutton."

John Blaxland, professor of international security and intelligence studies at the Australian National University, said that despite Dutton's saying he is his "personal person", his connection to Trump seems to have become the responsibility of Australian voters.

"Dutton, perhaps bishop's, approved President Trump's victory without realizing how difficult it would make his position - not on bolted rights, but among the swing voters at the center of the swinger, all elections won in Australia."

A poll released last month by the Lowy Institute, a research foundation, found that only 36% of Australians expressed any trust in the U.S., the lowest in the two-year history of the annual poll.

Blaxland has slandered Trump's long-term coalition and his approach to U.S. foreign policy, saying it was a "vertigo-induced" for Australian politicians, policymakers and voters, where voting is mandatory.

He said the Trump administration “has deeply disturbing and corrosive the surreal, short-term, trading attitude towards its relationship.”

Trump sees Australia as another freelancer, even though the U.S. usually trades surplus, not a deficit, has put a 10% tariff on all U.S. exports. (Australia reported on Thursday that in a very small number of biases, it sold to the U.S. to buy more in the first quarter as Trump’s tariffs rush to buy gold, one of Australia’s highest metal exports.)

Although 81% of Australians disapprove of Trump’s tariffs, the vast majority (80%) continue to say that the U.S. alliance is important to Australia’s security.

These figures reflect the economic and security dichotomy facing Australia: how to balance its relationship with the United States and its trade interests with China.

Albanese has been pushing his prime minister to stabilize relations with China, which was outdated under a previous Conservative government, prompting China to impose penalties for trade restrictions.

China is Australia's largest two-way trading partner, accounting for 25% of the country's goods and services trade in 2023-24. The United States is Australia's third largest two-way trading partner and the largest source of foreign investment.

If the U.S. imposes a 145% tariff on Chinese imports, "it does hurt the Chinese economy, and that will have a significant impact on Australia," said Stuart Rollo, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney's Center for International Security Studies.

Rollo said he might be worried about Australia if the U.S. tries to put pressure on allies to reduce economic ties with Beijing.

"A lot of our future prosperity is related to China's growth," he said.

“For us, the decision to disconnect from it – because we always need American protection – will be the real cost of the standard of living that Australians move forward.”

But without the United States, Australia would have been cut off from key military technology, and little protection from China’s aggression.

Australia's vulnerability was exhibited in February, when the Chinese military conducted live exercises on the country's coast, forcing dozens of commercial flights to Reroute.

That's why Australian politicians on both sides of the aisle say they remain committed to security agreements between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, even as Australians question whether they can still rely on the United States for defense.

"We are Anglo, European transplanted communities sitting on the edge of Asia,[that]drives our fear of abandonment, which drives us to the United States," Braxland said.

Under Aukus, Australia will purchase several nuclear-powered submarines from the United States to deter China.

But Australia will work hard to pay for the submarines, said James Laurenceson, director of the Institute of Technology, Australia's Institute of Technology, said.

“It’s a big cost issue for a small economy like Australia,” he said. “We just can’t go all out, all about the United States and imagine that our trade with China can actually sustain our submarines. That’s not.”

Albanis and Dutton both downplay any uncertainty about U.S. relations, but Laurenson believes there is a crack in the bipartisan support for the coalition.

"We would say that our security alliance with the United States is more than just a government," he said. "Yes, that's true, but Trump is certainly challenging that."