Joe Hockey: Donald Trump believes he’s got a job to do
Joe Hockey: Donald Trump believes he's got a job to do
The West Australian | August 19, 2025
Former treasurer Joe Hockey has been out of politics for 10 years (and from the other side), but he has something that the Labor Government desperately needs: the ear of US President Donald Trump.
Mr Hockey’s time as Australia’s ambassador to the US overlapped with Mr Trump’s first term in the White House.
During that time, he managed to strike up a professional friendship with the President, an achievement that alludes the man who now holds the role, Kevin Rudd. To be fair to the former PM, he’s not the only one. In the view of many in Western democracies, the only thing standing between Mr Trump and full-blown tyranny is a constitution and a few centuries of democracy.
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