The new reality dawning in Australia: it can no longer rely on the US

It's not really about the tariffs. Not for Australia the brutal humiliation meted out on camera to Ukraine in the Oval Office. Nor Canada's escalating war of invective and retaliatory sanctions. Australia, instead, got a desultory dismissal in the corridors of the White House - from a staffer: Canberra's plea to be exempted from the punitive new regime disregarded. "[President Trump] considered it, and considered against it." That was all. But it's not really about the tariffs. It's what the tariff decision says about Australia's relationship with the US, and the weight a historical alliance carries with a muscular new…