If I may! please....

As far as I can remember.... Trump was clever!
Trump did not show his hacksaw Trumpism hand until after he won except immigration which is a contentious, touchy issue in every western country

• Australian Federal Election — May 2025

According to most local and International News agencies — opposition leader Peter Dutton wanted to be Australia's Prime Minister but a 'Trump effect' thwarted him — Maybe.... Maybe not....

It was indeed a bruising night for Dutton, a 54 years old political veteran who also lost his Dickson, Queensland, parliamentary seat of 24 years, in a humiliating defeat, to a candidate from prime minister Anthony Albanese's victorious reelected Labor Party

An awkward, jumbled, inconsistent, undisciplined and disastrous campaign that did not do enough to reassure voters was mainly to blame but the "Trump effect" and “Trumpism” perhaps played not an insignificant part

Dutton, whether he liked it or not, was a man who many saw as Australia's Trump but as it turns out Australians do not appear to want that
It's a likeness he has rejected but then the Coalition pursued policies that seemed to have been borrowed from the Trump administration

Dutton's brand of hard-line conservatism, his support for controversial policies and his fierce criticism of China, all led to comparisons with US President Trump

Australia has long balanced its military alliance with the US and its economic relationship with China, Australia's biggest trading partner
But a US-China trade war, along with an unpredictable and unreliable White House, is tricky territory for any country — even an US ally like Australia