Anthony Albanese must acknowledge the world order has fundamentally shifted under \u201cbully\u201d Donald Trump instead of pretending nothing has changed globally, Malcolm Turnbull says.<\/p>\n
Turnbull urged Albanese to offer the same clear-eyed analysis as his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney<\/a>, who delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this month warning that the US-led global order is enduring \u201ca rupture\u201d, not a transition.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought Mark Carney\u2019s speech in Davos was outstanding \u2026 and yes, I think the Australian prime minister needs to give a similar speech, which is essentially acknowledging that the world has changed,\u201d the former prime minister told Guardian Australia\u2019s Full Story podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve yet heard from our government the type of honesty and the clear, rigorous analysis of the world as it is as we\u2019ve had from the Canadian prime minister.\u201d<\/p>\n Carney, speaking before Trump backed down on his threats<\/a> to take over Greenland by any means necessary, told the Davos forum<\/a> it was time to \u201cstop invoking rules-based international order as though it still functions as advertised\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cCall it what it is: a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion,\u201d he said<\/p>\n Turnbull, the prime minister from 2015 to 2018, has been a vocal critic of Australia\u2019s reliance on the United States and the $368bn Aukus agreement<\/a>, which was signed by his successor and fellow Liberal Scott Morrison.<\/p>\n While he acknowledged Albanese had been right not to provide running commentary on Trump and the US, he said now was the time for a speech acknowledging that the world has changed.<\/p>\n \u201cCarney doesn\u2019t comment on everything Trump does either. But what you need to do is to give a speech. This is a good time to do it, Australia Day is over, everyone\u2019s back at work. This is the time to really have a tour of the horizon set out,\u201d Turnbull said.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the things that Albanese has got to explain is why we are \u2026 putting everything into this US alliance at a time when the Americans are saying quite clearly, you have got to do more for yourself, you can\u2019t rely on us.<\/p>\n \u201cAustralians can see that the United States under Trump is not the United States we\u2019d grown up to know and respect and work with, and they\u2019ll be looking to their leader to explain how we deal with that and how we relate to that.\u201d<\/p>\n Turnbull claimed Trump had backed down on his Greenland threats, in part, due to Carney and European leaders standing up to him<\/a>.<\/p>\n Turnbull said he was not advocating for \u201csledging\u201d Trump, but that it must be acknowledged that the US president is a \u201cbully\u201d who will only negotiate \u201cwhen there is pushback\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t keep on pretending nothing has changed. And there is a tendency in Canberra to do that,\u201d Turnbull said.<\/p>\n The former prime minister had his own run-in with Trump in 2017, forcing the US to honour an Obama-era agreement<\/a> to resettle refugees detained on Nauru.<\/p>\n