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John Quiggin on anti-AMericanism:

But the main point is that Ken’s whole position (one that is shared my many supporters of the current US Administration) is nonsensical. I’ve had strong opinions about Australian politics for over thirty years. For all but three of those years I’ve been more critical of the government than supportive (and even in those three years my feelings were mixed by the end). I’ve publicly attacked governments of both parties, week in and week out, for the last decade, and have been attacked with vigour in my turn. In that entire time, as far as I can recall, no-one has ever accused me of being anti- Australian or unAustralian, and I’m sure that no-one who made such a claim would be taken seriously.

A government, even a democratically-elected one, is not the same as the country it governs. Both citizens and non- citizens can oppose the policy of a government without being hostile to the country it governs.