Canadian PM Mark Carney offers to team up with Australia as ‘strategic cousins’ to push back against dominant superpowers

Visiting PM tells Australia’s parliament ‘middle power’ countries must work together on defence, trade and AI Canada and Australia will be stronger negotiating together with superpowers including Donald Trump’s America, acting as “strategic cousins” rather than competitors, prime minister Mark Carney has told federal parliament. In a major address in Canberra on the last full day of his visit to Australia, Carney called for enhanced cooperation on critical minerals, defence and trade and anno...

By Tom McIlroy Political editor