The Unbreakable Alliance : The United States of America Presidents and Australian Prime Ministers
Volume 2: The alliance strengthens but questions arise, 1949-2026.
Daniel Mulino and Julian Fitzgerald
June 2026 Release, pre-order your copy
Paperback, $39.95
ISBN: 9781923568372
Australia and the US raised their relationship to Treaty level following WWII and then navigated the Cold War together, albeit not always smoothly.
In an era of globalisation, our leaders have generally embraced the benefits of free markets and open world trade through our bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral treaties.
We have shared in seeking to achieve technological and economic progress while also struggling to adapt to digital disruption, Artificial Intelligence and vast market-oriented economic reforms.
Today we confront terrorism, the resurgence of Russia and growing major power tension in a world of innovation, supply chain vulnerability and automation.
The leader-to-leader engagement between Prime Ministers and Presidents has often thrived on personal rapport, which on occasion has been more important than political alignment, such as between LBJ and Holt
and Hawke and Bush. More generally, the relationships have tended to become deeper over time as the leaders have engaged with each other more and more frequently - today not just through bilateral engagements but also regular meetings of APEC, the G20, the
Quad and many other fora.
Both volumes broaden our understanding of the interplay between our collective national security considerations, political systems and their administrative structures.
Daniel Mulino and Julian Fitzgerald
Julian Fitzgerald was a Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery journalist working for over 25 years. Born in Canberra he studied at the Australian National University before becoming a journalist. He now works for a Federal Government Department. He has previously published Lobbying in Australia, You can’t expect anything to change if you don’t speak up, Inside the Parliamentary Press Gallery: Seeing Beyond the Spin, and On Message: Political Communications of the Australian Prime Minister 1901-2014.
Daniel Mulino has been the Minister for Financial Services and Assistant Treasurer since the 2025 election. He has served at local, state and federal levels of government, including being the member for Fraser since 2019. Daniel lived in the US for five years while completing a PhD in economics at Yale University. While in the US, he completed internships at the Federal Reserve and the World Bank. He lives in Melbourne’s vibrant multicultural west with his wife and daughter.
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