Interest rates are keeping the pressure on household budgets, and on the Albanese government.

The Prime Minister’s trip to the Caribbean for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting while economic pain was being exacted back home has given his opponents another opportunity to question his priorities.

Meanwhile, One Nation is distancing itself from MAGA following the seismic repudiation of Trump in the US midterms. But the economic discontent that helped turn Americans against their government exists here too.

Today, SBS chief political correspondent Anna Henderson on the week in politics, and why the economic anger that punished Donald Trump should worry Canberra.

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