How will the outcome of the US election affect Australia, Aukus and our region?

Australia's future is closely tied to the future occupant of the White House. What impacts could a Kamala Harris or Donald Trump presidency have?

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More people have gone to a ballot box in 2024 than in any other year in human history. Billions have cast votes across scores of countries, including some of the largest, most powerful democracies on Earth.

But America's remains the world's global election, the most forensically examined, the most consequential all over the world. America matters.